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TWELVE

twelv (shenem `asar; dodeka).

See APOSTLE ;NUMBER .


TWELVE APOSTLES, GOSPELS OF THE

See APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS .


TWELVE PATRIARCHS; TESTAMENTS OF THE

See APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE , sec. IV, 1.


TWELVE STARS

See ASTRONOMY , sec. II, 12.


TWENTY

twen'-ti.

See NUMBER .


TWILIGHT

twi'-lit (nesheph): The twilight of Palestine is of short duration, owing to the low latitude, there being scarcely more than an hour between sunset and complete darkness. It is a distinct boundary between daytime and the darkness. The people of Palestine still give the time of an event as so many hours before or after sunrise or sunset: "David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day" (1 Sam 30:17), and "They rose up in the twilight to go" (2 Ki 7:5). The word is evidenly used in the sense of darkness in "the stars of twilight" (Job 3:9) and "The adulterer waiteth for the twilight" (Job 24:15). the King James Version has "twilight" in Ezek 12:6 ff, but the Revised Version (British and American) has "dark."

Alfred H. Joy


TWIN BROTHERS

(Acts 28:11).

See DIOSCURI .


TWINE

twin (shazar, "to be twined"): The word is used in Ex 26:1 ff; 36:8 ff, etc., of the "fine twined linen" used for the curtains and hangings of the tabernacle, and for parts of the priests' dress. It denotes linen the finely spun threads of which consisted of two or more smaller threads twined together.

See LINEN ;TABERNACLE .


TWO

too.

See NUMBER .



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