σκολιός
skoliós · G4646 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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winding, crooked
Pertaining to being crooked or winding
ExamplesLuke 3:5 ‘EVERY RAVINE WILL BE FILLED, AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND HILL WILL BE LOWERED; THE CROOKED WILL BECOME STRAIGHT, AND THE ROUGH ROADS SMOOTH;
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crooked, unscrupulous, dishonest
(A figurative extension of meaning of σκολιός ‘crooked,’) Pertaining to being unscrupulous and dishonest
ExamplesActs 2:40 And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on urging them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”
Philippians 2:15 so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,
1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are harsh.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰμίto be 1
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Winding, crooked79.90
- The adjective describes something physically bent or winding. Luke records Isaiah's prophecy, “EVERY RAVINE WILL BE FILLED, AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND HILL WILL BE LOWERED; THE CROOKED WILL BECOME STRAIGHT” (Luke 3:5).
- Crooked, unscrupulous, dishonest88.268
- The same adjective, used figuratively, describes a morally corrupt disposition or generation. Paul urges believers to be “blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation” (Philippians 2:15).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σκολιά, σκολιόν (opposed to ὀρθός, ὄρθιος, εὐθύς (cf. σκώληξ)), from Homer down, crooked,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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