1365. distazo
Strong's Concordance
distazo: I waver, doubt
Original Word: διστάζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: distazo
Phonetic Spelling: (dis-tad'-zo)
Short Definition: I waver, doubt
Definition: I waver, doubt, hesitate.
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1365 distázō (from 1364 /dís, "two, double" and 4714 /stásis, "stance, standing") – properly, going two ways, shifting between positions; choosing "a double-stance" and hence vacillate (waver); (figuratively) uncertain at a crossroad because refusing to choose one way over the other – "wanting to have our cake and eat it too"; to halt between two opinions (views, beliefs).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1365: διστάζω

διστάζω: 1 aorist ἐδίστασα (δίς); to doubt, waver: Matthew 14:31; Matthew 28:17. (Plato (Sophocles), Aristotle, Plutarch, others.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
doubt.

From dis; properly, to duplicate, i.e. (mentally) to waver (in opinion) -- doubt.

see GREEK dis

Forms and Transliterations
εδιστασαν εδίστασαν ἐδίστασαν εδιστασας εδίστασας ἐδίστασας edistasan edístasan edistasas edístasas
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2 Occurrences


ἐδίστασαν — 1 Occ.
ἐδίστασας — 1 Occ.

Matthew 14:31 V-AIA-2S
GRK: εἰς τί ἐδίστασας
NAS: why did you doubt?
KJV: wherefore didst thou doubt?
INT: of why did you doubt

Matthew 28:17 V-AIA-3P
GRK: οἱ δὲ ἐδίστασαν
NAS: [Him]; but some were doubtful.
KJV: him: but some doubted.
INT: some however doubted

2 Occurrences

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