skias

Strong’sG4639

a shadow, thick darkness, an outline

stem ski-7 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books3 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.

σκιά, -ᾶς, ἡ

[in LXX chiefly for צֵל, IV Ki 20:9 ff., Ps 56 (57):1, al.; but σ. and σ. θανάτου are also used for צַלְמָוֶת, Jb 3:5, Ps 22 (23):4, Is 9:2 (1) (v. ICC, in l.), al.;]

1. shadow, shade, caused by interception of light: Mk 4:32, Ac 5:15; metaph., σ. θανάτου, of ignorance and error, Mt 4:16, Lk 1:79 (LXX).

2. a shadow, the image or outline cast by an object: fig., ὑπόδειγμα καὶ σ., He 8:5; opp. to σῶμα, Col 2:17; opp. to εἰκών, He 10:1.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4639 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidskee'-ah

"shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively (darkness of error or an adumbration))

Fromapparently a primary word;

King Jamesshadow.

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

σκῐά, ᾶς,
Ionic dialect σκῐή, ῆς, ἡ, shadow, Refs 8th c.BC+; σκιὰ ἀντίστοιχος ὥς like the shadow that is one's double, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 reflection, image (in a bowl of oil), Refs 8th c.BC+
3 shade of one dead, phantom, Refs 8th c.BC+; κατθανὼν δὲ πᾶς ἀνὴρ γῆ καὶ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; also, of one worn to a shadow, Refs 4th c.BC+; κακωθεὶς δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἄλλ᾽ εἰμ᾽ ἢ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+: frequently in proverbs of man's mortal estate, σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν εἴδωλα.. ἢ κούφην σ. Refs; of human affairs, εὐτυχοῦντα μὲν σκιᾷ τις ἂν πρέψειεν Refs 4th c.BC+; οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἢ καπνοῦ σ. Refs; of worthless things, τἄλλ᾽ ἐγὼ καπνοῦ σκιᾶς οὐκ ἂν πριαίμην Refs 5th c.BC+; περὶ ὄνου σκιᾶς [μάχεσθαι] Refs 5th c.BC+ wrote a Comedy texts entitled Ὄνου σκι; ἡ ἐν Δελφοῖς σ. that phantom at Delphi, of the Amphictyonic council, Refs 4th c.BC+; αἱ τοῦ δικαίου σ. mere shadows of.., Refs 5th c.BC+; σκιαὶ τῶν ὄντων, ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ εἰδώλων σRefs 4th c.BC+
4 evil spirit, Refs 6th c.AD+
II shade of trees, etc., as a protection from heat, πετραίη τε σκιή the shade of a rock, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν σκιῇ ἑζόμενοςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἐν σκιᾷ, i.e. indoors, Refs 5th c.BC+; σκιὰν ὑπερτείνασα Σειρίου κυνός shade from its heat, Refs 5th c.BC+
III shadow in painting, τὰ λαμπρὰ τῇ σκιᾷ τρανότερα ποιοῦσι Refs 1st c.BC+; ἀνθρώπων πρῶτος ἐξευρὼν φθορὰν καὶ ἀπόχρωσιν σκιᾶς, of the painter Apollodorus, Refs 1st c.AD+
III.2 silhouette, profile, Διόδωρος σ. Ἀντιφίλου ἐποίησεν Refs 2nd c.BC+
III.3 perhaps coloured border on a garment, καλάσηριν ἢ ὑπόδυμα μὴ ἔχον σκιάς Refs 4th c.BC+
IV an uninvited guest, introduced by another (Latin umbra), Refs 1st c.AD+. (Cf. Sanskrit chāyā´ 'shadow'.)

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.

shadow6×shade1×

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	skias2×σκιὰ	skiais
object accusative	skian2×σκιὰν	skiain
direct address vocative	skiar	skiair
of, belonging to genitive	skiau	skiaiu
to, for dative	skia3×σκιᾷ	skiai

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

skistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

skia 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.

7 occurrences, every one of them listed

skias“shadow”subjectnominative singular2×

Acts 5:15… krabattoiu, hina erchorōntou Petrou kan tas skias episkiazateia tino autoiu.… mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them …

Colossians 2:17heim atō skias teiu mellarōnteiu, tem de sōmem tou …These are a shadow of the things to come, but …

skian“shade”objectaccusative singular2×

Mark 4:32… kladoin megoin, hōste dunorō hupo tan skian auteu teim peteineim tou ouranou kataskēnarō.… of the air nest in its shade.”

Hebrews 10:1Skian gar echarōntos tos nomos teiu mellarōnteiu …For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come …

skia“shadow”to, fordative singular3×

Matthew 4:16… kai toi kathorōntoi en chōra kai skia thanatou fōtem anatellata autoi.… living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

Luke 1:79epifanara toi en skote kai skia thanatou kathorōntoi, teu kateuthunara toin podoin …… live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet …

Hebrews 8:5hotinois hupodeigme kai skia latreualō teiu epouraneiu, kathōs chrēmatizotē Mōusos …… they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This …