noun · masculine
kataskopos
Strong’sG2685
a spy
stem kataskop-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
κατά-σκοπος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for רגל pi.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2685 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
one who reconnoitres, scout, spy, Refs 5th c.BC+; πεμφθεὶς Ἰλίου κ. Refs 6th c.BC+.
2 examiner, inspector, Refs 5th c.BC+.
II κατάσκοπος, ον, closely covered, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kataskopos | kataskopois |
| object accusative | kataskopon | kataskopoin1×κατασκόπους |
| direct address vocative | kataskopor | kataskopoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kataskopou | kataskopoiu |
| to, for dative | kataskopo | kataskopoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kataskopo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
kataskopoin“spies”objectaccusative plural1×
Hebrews 11:31… ouk sunapoleta toi apeitharantoi, decherantas toin kataskopoin meta eirēnau.… prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with …