noun · neuter
skepasmem
Strong’sG4629
clothing
stem skepasm-once 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.
* σκέπασμα, -τος, τό
(< σκεπάζω, to cover),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4629 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidskep'-as-mah
perhaps akin to the base of G4649 through the idea of noticeableness); clothing
Fromfrom a derivative of σκέπας (a covering;
King Jamesraiment.
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
a covering, τῶν σ. ὑποπετάσματα μὲν ἄλλα, περικαλύμματα δὲ ἕτερα Refs 5th c.BC+; of a cap or shoe, Refs; of clothing generally, Refs 4th c.BC+; covering membrane, Refs; τὸ φύλλον περικαρπίου σ., in plants, Refs
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 | skepasmem | skepasmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | skepasmeu | skepasmeiu |
| to, for dative | skepasme | skepasmei |
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
skepasme 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
skepasmeim1×
1 Timothy 6:8echarōntois de diatrofain kai skepasmeim, houtei arkini.But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.