dis marks a quantity or recurrence of two, such as two fasts, two rooster crows, or a second sending.

The attested uses mark an event, action, or condition as occurring two times: fasting within a week, a rooster’s two crows, a repeated sending, repeated intended travel, and the description of trees as “twice dead.”

1. Twofold occurrence or repetition · dominant

   The adverb marks actions or events counted or repeated in pairs. In Luke 18:12 the APB renders the speaker’s fasting as “twice a week”; in Mark 14:30 and Mark 14:72 it renders the rooster’s crowing as “twice” and “a second time”; and in Philippians 4:16 it presents sending as “once and again.” In 1 Thessalonians 2:18 the repeated desire to come is rendered “again and again,” while Jude 1:12 describes the trees as “twice dead.”

   1 Thessalonians 2:18Jude 1:12Luke 18:12Mark 14:30Mark 14:72Philippians 4:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “twice” for fasting, crowing, and the trees, “a second time” for the second rooster crow, and “once and again” or “again and again” for repeated actions. These phrases confirm the clauses’ twofold or repeated setting rather than establishing separate lexical senses.