σκύβαλον
skýbalon · G4657 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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rubbish, litter, trash
Worthless or unwanted material that is rejected and normally thrown out
ExamplesPhilippians 3:8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ,
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
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἡγέομαιto consider, to lead 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ῥύπος rhýpos · G4509 · dirt, refuse
- Greek term for filth or dirt, denoting refuse or worthless material, distinguished by its broader application to any kind of uncleanness rather than specifically ordure
Contrasting words 1 word
- θησαυρός thēsaurós · G2344 · storeroom, treasure room, money box
- Lexical opposite contrasting what is valued and stored with what is worthless and discarded (treasure vs. refuse)
In the other Testament 2 words
- פֶּרֶשׁ peresh · H6569 · dung, offal
- Hebrew term for dung/excrement, the primary Hebrew translation-equivalent for σκύβαλον's sense of refuse/ordure
- צוֹאָה tsôwʼâh · H6675 · excrement, filth
- Hebrew term for excrement/filth, another standard Hebrew rendering for refuse material
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Rubbish, litter, trash6.225
- The noun names discarded, worthless refuse. Paul writes, “I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord... and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ” (Philippians 3:8).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σκυβαλου, τό (κυσιβαλον τί ὄν, τό τοῖς κυσί βαλλόμενον, Suidas (p. 3347 c.; to the same…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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