σκωληκόβρωτος
skōlēkóbrōtos · G4662 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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eaten by worms
Pertaining to being eaten by worms (a reference to the occurrence of worms in ulcerous tissue)
ExamplesActs 12:23 And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- Eaten by worms23.166
- The adjective describes a body consumed by worms, here as a divine judgment. Luke records that Herod, having accepted the people's acclaim as a god, “was struck... because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died” (Acts 12:23).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σκωληκοβρωτον (σκώληξ and βιβρώσκω), eaten of worms: Acts 12:23, cf. 2 Macc. 9:9. (of a…
c. pl. 5, 9, 1.)
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
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