skōlēkos

Strong’sG4663

a gnawing worm

stem skōlēk-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.

σκώληξ, -ηκος, ὁ

[in LXX chiefly for תּוֹלָע and cogn. forms;]

a worm: of the kind which preys upon dead bodies, metaph., of fut. punishment, Mk 9:48 (LXX, Is 66:24; cf. Si 7:17, Jth 16:17).†

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

Strong’s G4663 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsko'-lakes

a grub, maggot or earth-worm

Fromof uncertain derivation;

King Jamesworm.

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

σκώληξ, ηκος, ὁ,
worm, especially earthworm, ὥς τε σκώληξ ἐπὶ γαίῃ κεῖτο ταθείς Refs 8th c.BC+
2 plural, grubs or larvae of insects, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐξ οὗ ὅλου ὅλον γίνεται τὸ ζῷον, opposed to the egg (ᾠόν), Refs 4th c.BC+
3 plural, worms in dung, in decayed matter, in trees and wood, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 metaphorically, οἱ κόλακές εἰσι.. οὐσίας σκώληκες Refs 4th c.BC+
5 aerugo vermicularis, Refs 1st c.AD+
II thread twisted from the distaff, Refs 4th c.BC+
III Aeolic dialect for κολόκυμα, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV worm-shaped cake, Refs 4th c.AD+
V heap of threshed corn, Refs 5th 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.

worm1×

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	skōlēkos1×σκώληξ	skōlēkois
object accusative	skōlēkon	skōlēkoin
direct address vocative	skōlēkor	skōlēkoir
of, belonging to genitive	skōlēkou	skōlēkoiu
to, for dative	skōlēko	skōlēkoi

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

skōlēkstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

skōlēko 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

skōlēkos“worm”subjectnominative singular1×

Mark 9:48hopou tos skōlēkos autoiu ouk teleutatō kai tem purem …where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is …