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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 BoxLev 26:1 - ‘You shall not make idols for yourselves;
neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;
nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;
for I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:16 - Now the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and there was the multitude, melting away; and they went here and there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - Then Absalom fled. And the young man who was keeping watch lifted his eyes and looked, and there, many people were coming from the road on the hillside behind him.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - Now David was sitting between the two gates. And the watchman went up to the roof over the gate, to the wall, lifted his eyes and looked, and there was a man, running alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25 - Then the watchman cried out and told the king. And the king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” And he came rapidly and drew near.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26 - Then the watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, “There is another man, running alone!” And the king said, “He also brings news.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - So the watchman said, “I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - Now a watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company of men.” And Joram said, “Get a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - So the horseman went to meet him, and said, “Thus says the king: ‘Is it peace?’ ” And Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me.” So the watchman reported, saying, “The messenger went to them, but is not coming back.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20 - So the watchman reported, saying, “He went up to them and is not coming back; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 - I was at ease, but He has shattered me;
He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces;
He has set me up for His target,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6 - For thus has the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman,
Let him declare what he sees.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:17 - Also, I set watchmen over you, saying,
‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not listen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12 - He has bent His bow
And set me up as a target for the arrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17 - “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2 - “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - ‘But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:7 - “So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:8 - The watchman of Ephraim is with my God;
But the prophet is a fowler’s[fn] snare in all his ways—
Enmity in the house of his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - “I found Israel
Like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal Peor,
And separated themselves to that shame;
They became an abomination like the thing they loved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12 - All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs:
If they are shaken,
They fall into the mouth of the eater.
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