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σπίλος

spílos · G4696 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. spot, stain

    That which constitutes an unwanted spot or stain upon something

    Examples

    Ephesians 5:27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

    2 Peter 2:13 suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions as they feast with you,

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 done to itIt is the object

1 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
Spot, stain79.57
The noun names a blemish or moral stain. Paul writes that Christ gave Himself for the church, “so that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing” (Ephesians 5:27).
Word family 3 words

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

σπίλοςspílos · G4696ἄσπιλος áspilos · G784 · spotless, without stain, morally spotless · 4×σπιλόω spilóō · G4695 · to spot, to stain · 2×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (WH σπίλος (so Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 87; Liddell and Scott, under the word); but see…
(WH σπίλος (so Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 87; Liddell and Scott, under the word); but see Tdf. Proleg., p. 102; Lipsius, Gram. Untersuch., p. 42), σπιλου, ὁ (Phryn. rejects this word in favor of the Attic κηλίς; but σπίλος is used by Joseph, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Lucian, Liban, Artemidor.; see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 28 (cf. Winers Grammar, 25)), a spot: tropically, a fault, moral blemish, Eph 5:27; plural of base and gluttonous men, 2 Pet 2:13.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Spotted, Spotless2 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.

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