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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 or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured 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 - And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude was dispersing here and there.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him[fn] by the side of the mountain.

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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 of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25 - The watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” And he drew nearer and nearer.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - 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 the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20 - Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he 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, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his target;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6 - For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
let him announce what he sees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12 - he bent his bow and set me
as a target for his 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. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall 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 your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, 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, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person 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 a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:8 - The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways,
and hatred in the house of his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - Like grapes in the wilderness,
I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
But they came to Baal-peor
and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
and became detestable like the thing they loved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12 - All your fortresses are like fig trees
with first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
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