UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: διετής; -ές

Constructions: διετής; δύο; ἔτος

Sense 1: two years old

Semantic entry: 67.170

Semantic domains: Time

Subdomains: Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour

Definition: pertaining to having existed for two years

Notes: This expression in OET MAT 2:16 may be rendered in some languages as ‘children who were two years old and those who were not yet two years old.’

Show passage in OET: MAT 2:16

OET-RV MAT 2:16

16 When King Herodes (Herod) realised that he’d been tricked by the watchers of signs, he got very angry and gave orders that all the sons in Beyt -Lehem (Bethlehem) and its districts that were two years old and younger be killed, because that was the period that he’d found out from the watchers of signs.

OET-LV MAT 2:16

16 Then Haʸrōdaʸs, having _seen that he _was _mocked by the wise _men, was _enraged exceedingly and having _sent _out, he _killed all the boys which in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) and in all the regions of _it from two _year and lower, according _to the time which he _ascertained from the wise _men.

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διετής

Form 1

Sense 1: two years old