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Lexicon :: Strong's G4655 - skotos

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σκότος
Transliteration
skotos (Key)
Pronunciation
skot'-os
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of σκιά (G4639)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:423,1049

Trench's Synonyms: c. σκότος, γνόφος, ζόφος, ἀχλύς.

Strong’s Definitions

σκότος skótos, skot'-os; from the base of G4639; shadiness, i.e. obscurity (literally or figuratively):—darkness.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's G4655 in the following manner: darkness (32x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's G4655 in the following manner: darkness (32x).
  1. darkness

    1. of night darkness

    2. of darkened eyesight or blindness

  2. metaph.

    1. of ignorance respecting divine things and human duties, and the accompanying ungodliness and immorality, together with their consequent misery in hell

    2. persons in whom darkness becomes visible and holds sway

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σκότος skótos, skot'-os; from the base of G4639; shadiness, i.e. obscurity (literally or figuratively):—darkness.
STRONGS G4655:
σκότος, σκότου, σκοτου, (cf. σκοτία, at the beginning), from Homer down, darkness: Hebrews 12:18 Rec. (cf. WHs Appendix, p. 158; Winer's Grammar, 66 (64); B 22 (20)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Hebrews
12:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4655 matches the Greek σκότος (skotos),
which occurs 97 times in 90 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 1:2–Psa 107:10)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - And the earth was a [fn]formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the [fn]surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the [fn]surface of the waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - and [fn]to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:21 -

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out with your hand toward the sky, so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness which may be felt.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:22 - So Moses reached out with his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud [fn]along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Therefore the one did not approach the other all night.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:11 - “You came forward and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire to the heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 -

“These words the LORD spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, from the cloud, and from the thick darkness, with a great voice, and He added nothing more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - and you will be groping about at noon, just as a person who is blind gropes in the darkness, and you will not be successful in your ways; but you will only be [fn]oppressed and robbed all the time, with no one to save you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - “It came about, when it was time to shut the gate at dark, that the men went out; I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:9 - “And he said to me, ‘Please stand next to me and finish me off, for [fn]agony has seized me because my [fn]life still lingers in me.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:12 -

“He made darkness canopies around Him,

A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:29 -

“For You are my lamp, LORD;

And the LORD illuminates my darkness.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:5 - So they got up at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:7 - So they got up and fled at twilight, and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeysindeed the camp itself, just as it was; and they fled for their lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 -

“May that day be darkness;

May God above not care for it,

Nor light shine on it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 -

“May darkness and black gloom claim it;

May a cloud settle on it;

May the blackness of the day terrify it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 -

As for that night, may darkness seize it;

May it not rejoice among the days of the year;

May it not come into the number of the months.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 -

“By day they meet with darkness,

And grope at noon as in the night.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:22 -

The land of utter gloom like darkness itself,

Of deep shadow without order,

And it shines like darkness.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 -

“He reveals mysteries from the darkness,

And brings the deep darkness into light.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 -

“They grope in darkness with no light,

And He makes them stagger like a drunken person.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:22 -

“He does not believe that he will return from darkness,

And he is destined for the sword.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30 -

“He will not [fn]escape from darkness;

The flame will dry up his shoot,

And he will go away by the breath of His mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 -

“They make night into day, saying,

‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:6 -

“The light in his tent is darkened,

And his lamp goes out above him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 -

[fn]He is driven from light into darkness,

And chased from the inhabited world.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:8 -

“He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass,

And He has put darkness on my paths.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 -

Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures,

And unfanned fire will devour him;

It will consume the survivor in his tent.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:11 -

Or darkness, so that you cannot see,

And a flood of water covers you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:17 -

But I am not destroyed by darkness,

Nor by deep gloom which covers me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 -

“The murderer arises at dawn;

He kills the poor and the needy,

And at night he is like a thief.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:15 -

“The eye of the adulterer watches for [fn]twilight,

Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’

And he [fn]disguises his face.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 -

“In the darkness they dig into houses,

They shut themselves up by day;

They do not know the light.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10 -

“He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters

At the boundary of light and darkness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 -

Man puts an end to darkness,

And to the farthest limit he searches out

The rock in gloom and deep shadow.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 -

When His lamp shone over my head,

And by His light I walked through darkness;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:15 -

“Do you know how God establishes them,

And makes the [fn]lightning of His clouds to shine?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 -

“Where is the way to the dwelling of light?

And darkness, where is its place,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:11 -

He made darkness His hiding place, His [fn]canopy around Him,

Darkness of waters, thick clouds.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:28 -

For You light my lamp;

The LORD my God illumines my darkness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:6 -

Let their way be dark and slippery,

With the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:5 -

Fear and trembling come upon me,

And [fn]horror has [fn]overwhelmed me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:5 -

They do not know nor do they understand;

They walk around in darkness;

All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:12 -

Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness?

And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:6 -

Of the plague that [fn]stalks in darkness,

Or of the destruction that devastates at noon.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:20 -

You appoint darkness and it becomes night,

In which all the animals of the forest [fn]prowl about.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:28 -

He sent darkness and made it dark;

And they did not rebel against His words.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 -

There were those who lived in darkness and in [fn]the shadow of death,

Prisoners in misery and [fn]chains,


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