noun · neuter
skelem
Strong’sG4628
the leg
stem skel-3 times in the New Testament0 of 6 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.
σκέλος, -ους, τό
[in LXX for רֶגֶל, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4628 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidskel'-os
through the idea of leanness); the leg (as lank)
Fromapparently from σκέλλω (to parch;
King Jamesleg.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
leg from the hip downwards, only once in Refs 8th c.BC+ the ham or buttock, Refs 8th c.BC+; τὰ σκέλη τε καὶ τὰ ἰσχία πρὸς τὴν γῆν ἐρείσας Refs 5th c.BC+; of dancers, τὸ σ. ῥίψαντες, αἴρειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐρανῷ σκέλη προφαίνων, of one thrown head foremost, Refs 5th c.BC+; βαδιοῦνται ἐπὶ δυοῖν σκελοῖν, ἐφ᾽ ἑνὸς πορεύσονται σκέλους, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ δεινός, ὁ ταλαύρινος, ὁ κατὰ τοῖν σκελοῖν he with the legs, the strider, Refs 5th c.BC+; σκέλε (i.e. probably σκέλει) δύο Refs 4th c.BC+: singular, leg of sacrificial victim, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 as a military phrase, ἐπὶ σκέλος πάλιν χωρεῖν, ἀνάγειν, retreat with the face towards the enemy, retire leisurely, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 κατὰ σκέλος βαδίζειν, of the lion and the camel, with the hind foot following the fore on the same side (not crosswise), Refs 4th c.BC+
4 παρὰ σκέλος ἀπαντᾷ it meets one across, i.e. crosses one's path, thwarts one, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II metaphorically, τὰ σ. the legs, i.e. the two long walls connecting Athens with Piraeus, Refs 1st c.BC+; τὰ μακρὰ σ. Refs 1st c.BC+; of the long walls between Megara and Nisaea, τὰ Μεγαρικὰ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II.b side-wall of a temple, Refs 4th c.BC+; of other structures, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2 side-poles or frames of an engine, Refs 4th c.AD+
II.3 tails of a surgical bandage, Refs 1st c.AD+; of the ends of the Persian head-dress, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.4 members of a sentence, Refs 4th c.BC+. (Written σχέλος Refs 3rd c.BC+
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 or object direct | skelem | skeleim |
| of, belonging to genitive | skeleu | skeleiu |
| to, for dative | skele | skelei |
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
skele 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
skeleim3×
John 19:31… ton Pilaton hina kateagileia autoiu teim skeleim kai airileia.… Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
John 19:32… kai tou men prōtou kateagala teim skeleim kai tou allosou tou sustaurirantou auto;… the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had …
John 19:33… auton thnēskarēnton, ouk kateagala autou teim skeleim,… dead, they did not break His legs.