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Lexicon :: Strong's G4639 - skia

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σκιά
Transliteration
skia (Key)
Pronunciation
skee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:394,1044

Strong’s Definitions

σκιά skiá, skee'-ah; apparently a primary word; "shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively (darkness of error or an adumbration)):—shadow.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G4639 in the following manner: shadow (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G4639 in the following manner: shadow (7x).

  1. shadow

    1. shade caused by the interception of light

    2. an image cast by an object and representing the form of that object

    3. a sketch, outline, adumbration

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σκιά skiá, skee'-ah; apparently a primary word; "shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively (darkness of error or an adumbration)):—shadow.
STRONGS G4639:
σκιά, σκιᾶς, ἡ ((see σκηνή, at the beginning)), from Homer down, the Sept. for צֵל;
a. properly, shadow, i. e. shade caused by the interception of the light: Mark 4:32 (cf. Ezekiel 17:23); Acts 5:15; σκιά θανάτου, shadow of death (like umbra mortis, Ovid. metam. 5, 191, and umbra Erebi, Vergil Aen. 4, 26; 6, 404), 'the densest darkness' (because from of old Hades had been regarded as enveloped in thick darkness), tropically, the thick darkness of error (i. e. spiritual death; see θάνατος, 1): Matthew 4:16; Luke 1:79 (from Isaiah 9:1, where צַלְמָוֶת).
b. a shadow, i. e. an image cast by an object and representing the form of that object: opposed to σῶμα, the thing itself, Colossians 2:17; hence, equivalent to a sketch, outline, adumbration, Hebrews 8:5; opposed to εἰκών, the 'express' likeness, the very image, Hebrews 10:1 (as in Cicero, de off. 3, 17, 69nos veri juris solidam et expresssam effigiem nullam tenemus, umbra et imaginibus utimur).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
9:1
Ezekiel
17:23
Matthew
4:16
Mark
4:32
Luke
1:79
Acts
5:15
Colossians
2:17
Hebrews
8:5; 10:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4639 matches the Greek σκιά (skia),
which occurs 46 times in 42 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:36 - When Gaal saw them, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains!” Zebul replied, “You mistake the shadows of the mountains for men.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:9 - Isaiah answered, “This is the LORD’s sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10 - “It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” said Hezekiah. “Rather, have it go back ten steps.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11 - Then the prophet Isaiah called on the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:9 - for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings utter darkness into the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2 - They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:29 - He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:17 - For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - Mortals put an end to the darkness; they search out the farthest recesses for ore in the blackest darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:4 - Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[fn] I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19 - But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam.[fn] When he had fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:10 - The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:6 - You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 - My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 - Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 - I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:4 - They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:12 - For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12 - Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:13 - Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 - She: Like an apple[fn] tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:17 - Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:6 - Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:6 - It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 - The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’ ” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:16 - I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:4 - “Prepare for battle against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! But, alas, the daylight is fading, and the shadows of evening grow long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16 - Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to utter darkness and change it to deep gloom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 - The LORD’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:23 - On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it; it will produce branches and bear fruit and become a splendid cedar. Birds of every kind will nest in it; they will find shelter in the shade of its branches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:6 - All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs, all the animals of the wild gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 - He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the LORD is his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5 - Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:6 - Then the LORD God provided a leafy plant[fn] and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant.
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