Strong G4655σκότος
darkness
- Transliteration
- skotos
- Pronunciation
- skot'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine or Neuter)
Definition
From the base of G4639; shadiness that is obscurity (literally or figuratively): - darkness.
Detailed definition
σκότος, -ου, ὁ the more usual cl. form (cf.σ., τό),
darkness: Heb.12:18, Rec.†
(AS)
darkness: Heb.12:18, Rec.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4655 appears in 31 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- darkness31
First verses
- Matthew 4:16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
- Matthew 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
- Matthew 8:12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 22:13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 25:30And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
- Mark 15:33And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
- Luke 1:79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 11:35Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
- Luke 22:53When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
- Luke 23:44And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
- John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
- Acts 2:20The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
- Acts 13:11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
- Acts 26:18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
- Romans 2:19And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
- Romans 13:12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 6:14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
σκότος, ὁ,
more rarely σκότος, εος, τό (see. entry near the end), darkness, gloom, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.389, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 121.4, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 142, etc.)]; opposed to φάος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 319 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 417, etc.)]; opposed to ἡμέρα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 411b.)]
2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”)] always of the darkness of death, mostly in phrase τὸν δὲ σ. ὄσσε κάλυψεν [Refs (4.461, +others; στυγερὸς δ᾽ ἄρα μιν σ. εἷλεν 5.47, 13.672)]; so in Trag. and Comedy texts, σκότῳ θανεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 837 (Lyric poetry))]; ἤδη με περιβάλλει σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1453; σ. γίγνεται 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 40)]; σκότον εἶναι τεθνηκότος (i.e. Αἰσχύλου) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 643.)]
3 of the nether world, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 130; σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν τε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 72, compare “Pers.” 223; τὸν ἀεὶ κατὰ γᾶς σ. εἱμένος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1701 (Lyric poetry))]; παῖδες ἀρχαίου Σκότου[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 106; ἰὼ σ., ἐμὸν φάος [prev. author] “Aj.” 394 (Lyric poetry); γῆς σκότῳ κέκρυπται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 62; σκότου πύλαι [prev. author] “Hec.” 1.)]
4 the darkness of the womb, φυγόντα μητρόθεν σκότον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 664: _plural_, ἐν σκότοισι νηδύος τεθραμμένη [prev. author] “Eu.” 665.)]
5 of blindness, σκότου νέφος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1313 (Lyric poetry); ὁθούνεκ᾽.. ἐν σκότῳ.. ὀψοίατο, i.e. οὐκέτι ὀψοίατο, [prev. work] 1273)]; βλέποντα νῦν μὲν ὄρθ᾽, ἔπειτα δὲ σκότον, i.e. μηδέν,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 419; σκότον δεδορκώς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 377, compare “HF” 563.)]
5.b dizziness, vertigo, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.23; σκότοι πρὸ τῶν ὀμμάτων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 584a3)]; compare σκοτόδινος, -δινιάω.
6 metaphorically, σκότῳ κρύπτειν hide in darkness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1396 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Frr.” 42.5, 228)]; σκότον ἔχειν to be in darkness, obscurity, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “N.” 7.13, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1052.8)]; ἀπορία καὶ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 837a; περικαλύψαι τοῖσι πράγμασι σκότον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1522: with Preps., διὰ σκότους ἡ ὁδός)] it is dark and uncertain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.9; ἐν σ. καθήμενος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.83; μηδὲν ἐν σ. τεχνωμένων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 494; κατὰ σκότον [prev. author] “Ph.” 578; ὑπὸ σκότου [prev. author] “Ant.” 692, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1457 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.4; ὑπὸ σκότῳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1030 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1214.)]
7 of a person, Μητρότιμος ὁ σ., like{ὁ σκοτεινός}, the mystery-man, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 78)]; also, darkness, i.e. ignorance, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.226)]; deceit, σ. καὶ ἀπάτη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 864c.)]
8 plural, σκότη shadows in a picture, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Grammaticus “fragment” 300, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see entry {ἀπεσκοτωμένα}, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 953.51.— 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 217)] regarded the masculine as the Attic dialect form: the neuter never occurs in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus)], and is nowhere required by the metre in Trag., though it sometimes occurs in codices, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 831, “HF” 1159, “fragment” 534, variant in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 40, uncertain reading in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 6)]; it is found, however, without variant, in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 42.5)] and Attic dialect Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 516e, “Cra.” 418c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.159, etc.; also in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121. έ, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.9, 7.4.18)]; the word is always neuter in LXX and “NT.”
σκοτί-α, ἡ,
(σκότος) darkness, gloom, [NT+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1698, LXX (LXX.Mic.3.6, +others), “NT” (NT.Matt.10.27, +others), cf. Moer. p.354 P.)]
II in Architecture, scotia, cavetto, a sunken moulding, so called from the dark shadow it casts, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 3.5.2, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
III Σκοτιά, epithet of Aphrodite in Egypt, [Refs ([prev. author])]
more rarely σκότος, εος, τό (see. entry near the end), darkness, gloom, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.389, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 121.4, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 142, etc.)]; opposed to φάος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 319 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 417, etc.)]; opposed to ἡμέρα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 411b.)]
2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”)] always of the darkness of death, mostly in phrase τὸν δὲ σ. ὄσσε κάλυψεν [Refs (4.461, +others; στυγερὸς δ᾽ ἄρα μιν σ. εἷλεν 5.47, 13.672)]; so in Trag. and Comedy texts, σκότῳ θανεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 837 (Lyric poetry))]; ἤδη με περιβάλλει σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1453; σ. γίγνεται 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 40)]; σκότον εἶναι τεθνηκότος (i.e. Αἰσχύλου) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 643.)]
3 of the nether world, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 130; σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν τε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 72, compare “Pers.” 223; τὸν ἀεὶ κατὰ γᾶς σ. εἱμένος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1701 (Lyric poetry))]; παῖδες ἀρχαίου Σκότου[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 106; ἰὼ σ., ἐμὸν φάος [prev. author] “Aj.” 394 (Lyric poetry); γῆς σκότῳ κέκρυπται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 62; σκότου πύλαι [prev. author] “Hec.” 1.)]
4 the darkness of the womb, φυγόντα μητρόθεν σκότον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 664: _plural_, ἐν σκότοισι νηδύος τεθραμμένη [prev. author] “Eu.” 665.)]
5 of blindness, σκότου νέφος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1313 (Lyric poetry); ὁθούνεκ᾽.. ἐν σκότῳ.. ὀψοίατο, i.e. οὐκέτι ὀψοίατο, [prev. work] 1273)]; βλέποντα νῦν μὲν ὄρθ᾽, ἔπειτα δὲ σκότον, i.e. μηδέν,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 419; σκότον δεδορκώς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 377, compare “HF” 563.)]
5.b dizziness, vertigo, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.23; σκότοι πρὸ τῶν ὀμμάτων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 584a3)]; compare σκοτόδινος, -δινιάω.
6 metaphorically, σκότῳ κρύπτειν hide in darkness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1396 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Frr.” 42.5, 228)]; σκότον ἔχειν to be in darkness, obscurity, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “N.” 7.13, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1052.8)]; ἀπορία καὶ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 837a; περικαλύψαι τοῖσι πράγμασι σκότον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1522: with Preps., διὰ σκότους ἡ ὁδός)] it is dark and uncertain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.9; ἐν σ. καθήμενος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.83; μηδὲν ἐν σ. τεχνωμένων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 494; κατὰ σκότον [prev. author] “Ph.” 578; ὑπὸ σκότου [prev. author] “Ant.” 692, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1457 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.4; ὑπὸ σκότῳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1030 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1214.)]
7 of a person, Μητρότιμος ὁ σ., like{ὁ σκοτεινός}, the mystery-man, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 78)]; also, darkness, i.e. ignorance, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.226)]; deceit, σ. καὶ ἀπάτη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 864c.)]
8 plural, σκότη shadows in a picture, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Grammaticus “fragment” 300, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see entry {ἀπεσκοτωμένα}, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 953.51.— 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 217)] regarded the masculine as the Attic dialect form: the neuter never occurs in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus)], and is nowhere required by the metre in Trag., though it sometimes occurs in codices, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 831, “HF” 1159, “fragment” 534, variant in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 40, uncertain reading in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 6)]; it is found, however, without variant, in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 42.5)] and Attic dialect Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 516e, “Cra.” 418c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.159, etc.; also in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121. έ, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.9, 7.4.18)]; the word is always neuter in LXX and “NT.”
σκοτί-α, ἡ,
(σκότος) darkness, gloom, [NT+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1698, LXX (LXX.Mic.3.6, +others), “NT” (NT.Matt.10.27, +others), cf. Moer. p.354 P.)]
II in Architecture, scotia, cavetto, a sunken moulding, so called from the dark shadow it casts, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 3.5.2, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
III Σκοτιά, epithet of Aphrodite in Egypt, [Refs ([prev. author])]