adjective
skolios
Strong’sG4646
crooked, perverse, unfair
stem skoli-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 26 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.
σκολιός, -ά, -όν
[in LXX: De 32:5 (עִקֵּשׁ), Pr 28:18 (σ. ὁδοῖς πορεύεσθαι, for: דְּרָכַיׅם נֶעֱקַשׁ), Is 40:4 (עָקֹב), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4646 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidskol-ee-os'
warped, i.e. winding; figuratively, perverse
Fromfrom the base of G4628;
King Jamescrooked, froward, untoward.
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
curved, bent (opposed to ὀρθός, εὐθύς), σ. σίδηρος Refs 5th c.BC+; of rivers and paths, winding, ποταμός Refs 5th c.BC+; οἶμος, ἀτραπός, etc., Refs 4th c.BC+; twisted, tangled, βάτος Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐς τὸ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 bent sideways, δουλείη κεφαλή, σκολιή Refs 6th c.BC+; ἵππος σ. crooked made or going askew, Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, crooked, i.e. unjust, unrighteous, θέμιστες Refs 8th c.BC+; μῦθοι, δίκαι, Refs 8th c.BC+; αἰ σκολιὰν (i.e. ῥήτραν) ὁ δᾶμος ἕλοιτο, Spartan law cited in Refs 6th c.BC+; riddling, obscure, ῥημάτια Refs 2nd c.AD+ makes the crooked one straight, Refs 8th c.BC+; τυφλὰ καὶ σ. Refs; σκολιά, τά, indirect methods, Refs 1st c.BC+. adverb σκολιῶς Refs 8th c.BC+
III σκολιόν, τό, intestine, σπλάγχανα καὶ νεφρὸν καὶ σκολιόν Refs 5th 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | skolios | skolias | skoliem | skoliois | skoliais | skolieim1×σκολιὰ |
| object accusative | skolion | skolian | skolioin | skoliain | ||
| direct address vocative | skolior | skoliar | skolioir | skoliair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | skoliou | skoliau2×σκολιᾶς | skolieu | skolioiu | skoliaiu | skolieiu |
| to, for dative | skolio | skolia | skolie | skolioi1×σκολιοῖς | skoliai | skoliei |
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
skoli 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
skoliau“corrupt”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Acts 2:40… legarōntos; Sōzivar apo tau geneau tau skoliau houtau.… urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
Philippians 2:15… akeraiois, tekneim theou amōmeim mesem geneau skoliau kai diastreforēntau, en hoi fanovō hōs …… of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you …
skolioi“harsh”to, fordative plural1×
1 Peter 2:18“harsh”… agathoi kai epieikoi alla kai toi skolioi.… who are good and gentle, but even to those who are …
skolieim“crooked”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Luke 3:5… kai bounos tapeiniti, kai eti teim skolieim eis euthuan kai tais trachuais eis …… mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and …