Bible Names

Didymus: meaning of the name

Didymus means “a twin; double.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Didymus in Hebrew and Greek

Δίδυμος G1324

Dídymos — double, i.e. twin; Didymus, a Christian

prolongation from G1364 (δίς);

Didymus in Scripture

“Didymus” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • John 11:16

    Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

  • John 20:24

    But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

  • John 21:2

    There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.