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σκοτεινός

skoteinós · G4652 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. dark, in darkness

    Pertaining to being in a state of darkness

    Examples

    Matthew 6:23 “But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

    Luke 11:34 “Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

    Luke 11:36 “Therefore if your whole body is full of light, without any dark part, it will be wholly illuminated, as when the lamp illuminates you with its light.”

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 is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Dark, in darkness14.54
The adjective describes something lacking light. Jesus warns, “if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” (Matthew 6:23).
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σκιά skiá · G4639 · shade, shadow · 7×σκότος skótos · G4655 · darkness, evil world, realm of evil · 30×σκοτία skotía · G4653 · darkness, evil world, realm of evil · 17×ἐπισκιάζω episkiázō · G1982 · to cast a shadow upon · 5×σκοτίζω skotízō · G4654 · to become dark, to be incapable of perceiving, to not be able to understand · 5×σκοτεινόςskoteinós · G4652σκοτόω skotóō · G4656 · to become dark, to be incapable of perceiving, to not be able to understand · 3×ἀποσκίασμα aposkíasma · G644 · shadow · 1×κατασκιάζω kataskiázō · G2683 · to cast a shadow upon · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (WH σκοτινος; see Iota), σκοτεινή, σκοτεινόν (σκότος), full of darkness, covered with…
(WH σκοτινος; see Iota), σκοτεινή, σκοτεινόν (σκότος), full of darkness, covered with darkness (from Aeschylus down): opposed to φωτεινός, Mt 6:23; Lk 11:34, Lk 11:36 (τά σκοτεινά καί τά φωτεινα, Xenophon, mem. 3, 10, 1; (cf. 4, 3, 4)).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Darkness3 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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