σκοτόω
skotóō · G4656 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to become dark
(Derivative of σκότος ‘darkness,’) To change from a condition of being light to one of being dark
ExamplesRevelation 9:2 He opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke ascended out of the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the shaft.
Revelation 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,
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to be incapable of perceiving, to not be able to understand
(Figurative extension of meaning of σκοτόω ‘to become dark,’) To become unable to perceive and thus unable to understand
ExamplesEphesians 4:18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἀήρair 1
- ἥλιοςthe sun 1
- βασιλείαkingdom, reign 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκfrom+ καπνόςsmoke 1
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 2 entries
- To become dark14.55
- The verb describes the physical loss of light. John describes the fifth angel's trumpet: he “opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke ascended out of the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the shaft” (Revelation 9:2).
- To be incapable of perceiving, to not be able to understand32.44
- The same verb, used figuratively, describes a mind rendered incapable of understanding. Paul describes the Gentiles as “being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them” (Ephesians 4:18).
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σκότῳ: passive, perfect participle ἐσκοτωμενος; 1 aorist ἐσκοτώθην; (cf. WH's Appendix,…
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
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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