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Lexicon :: Strong's G4649 - skopos

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σκοπός
Transliteration
skopos (Key)
Pronunciation
skop-os'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From skeptomai (to peer about ["skeptic"], perhaps akin to σκάπτω (G4626) through the idea of concealment, cf σκέπασμα (G4629))
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:413,1047

Strong’s Definitions

σκοπός skopós, skop-os'; from σκέπτομαι sképtomai (to peer about ("skeptic"); perhaps akin to G4626 through the idea of concealment; compare G4629); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by implication) a goal:—mark.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G4649 in the following manner: mark (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G4649 in the following manner: mark (1x).

  1. an observer, a watchman

  2. the distant mark looked at, the goal or end one has in view

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σκοπός skopós, skop-os'; from σκέπτομαι sképtomai (to peer about ("skeptic"); perhaps akin to G4626 through the idea of concealment; compare G4629); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by implication) a goal:—mark.
STRONGS G4649:
σκοπός, σκοποῦ, ὁ ((from a root denoting 'to spy,' 'peer,' 'look into the distance'; cf. also Latinspecio, speculum, species, etc.; Fick i., 251f; iv., 279; Curtius, § 111)); from Homer down;
1. an observer, a watchman.
2. the distant mark looked at, the goal or end one has in view: κατά σκοπόν (on this phrase see κατά, II. 1 c.), Philippians 3:14.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Philippians
3:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4649 matches the Greek σκοπός (skopos),
which occurs 24 times in 21 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:16 - And the watchmen of Saul beheld in Gabaa of Benjamin, and, behold, the army was thrown into confusion on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - And Abessalom escaped: and the young man the watchman lifted up his eyes, and looked; and, behold, much people went in the way behind him from the side of the mountain in the descent: and the watchman came and told the king, and said, I have seen men by the way of Oronen, by the side of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - And David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up on the top of the gate of the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25 - And the watchman cried out, and reported to the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there are good tidings in his mouth. And the man came and drew near.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26 - And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman cried at the gate, and said, And look, another man running alone. And the king said, He also brings glad tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - And the watchman said, I see the running of the first as the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said, He is a good man, and will come to report glad tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - And there went up a watchman upon the tower of Jezrael, and saw the dust made by Ju as he approached; and he said, I see dust. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send [fn]to meet them, and let him say, Peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - And there went a horseman to meet them, and said, Thus says the king, Peace. And Ju said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn behind me. And the watchman reported, saying, The messenger came up to them, and has not returned.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20 - And the watchman reported, saying, He came up to them, and has not returned: and the driver [fn]drives Ju the son of Namessi, for it is with furious haste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 - When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6 - For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:17 - I have set watchmen over you, saying, Hear ye the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12 - He. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17 - I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou shalt hear a word of my mouth, and shalt threaten them from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2 - Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and thou shalt say to them, On whatsoever land I shall bring a sword, and the people of the land take one man of them, and set him for their watchman:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - But if the watchman see the sword coming, and do not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword come, and take a soul from among them, that soul is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood thereof will I require at the watchman's hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:7 - And thou, son of man, I have set thee as a watchman to the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear a word from my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:8 - The watchman of Ephraim was with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig-tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12 - All thy strong-holds are as fig-trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
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