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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 - “ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:16 - Saul’s lookouts at Gibeah in Benjamin saw the army melting away in all directions.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. Now the man standing watch looked up and saw many people on the road west of him, coming down the side of the hill. The watchman went and told the king, “I see men in the direction of Horonaim, on the side of the hill.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. As he looked out, he saw a man running alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25 - The watchman called out to the king and reported it. The king said, “If he is alone, he must have good news.” And the runner came closer and closer.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26 - Then the watchman saw another runner, and he called down to the gatekeeper, “Look, another man running alone!” The king said, “He must be bringing good news, too.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - The watchman said, “It seems to me that the first one runs like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “He’s a good man,” the king said. “He comes with good news.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - When the lookout standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.” “Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - The horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?’ ” “What do you have to do with peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” The lookout reported, “The messenger has reached them, but he isn’t coming back.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20 - The lookout reported, “He has reached them, but he isn’t coming back either. The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a maniac.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 - All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6 - This is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:17

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12 - He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17 - “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2 - “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:7 - “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:8 - The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim,[fn] yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12 - All your fortresses are like fig trees with their first ripe fruit; when they are shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.
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