noun · masculine

skolopsos

Greekσκόλοψ (skolops)

Strong’sG4647

a stake or thorn

stem skolops-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

thorn1×

What it means

σκόλοψ, -οπος, ὁ

[in LXX: Nu 33:55 (שֵׂךְ), Ho 2:6 (8) (סִיר), Ez 28:24 (סִלּוֹן), Si 43:19 *;]

anything pointed, esp.

1. in cl., a stake

2. In Hellenistic vernacular, a thorn (cf. LXX, ll. c.): σ. τῇ σαρκί, II Co 12:7 (cf. MM, i., xxiii; DB, iii, 700 f.; Deiss., St. Paul, 62 f.; Field, Notes, 187).†

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

Strong’s G4647 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidskol'-ops

withered at the front, i.e. a point or prickle (figuratively, a bodily annoyance or disability)

Fromperhaps from the base of G4628 and G3700;

King Jamesthorn.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	skolopsos1×σκόλοψ	skolopsois
object accusative	skolopson	skolopsoin
direct address vocative	skolopsor	skolopsoir
of, belonging to genitive	skolopsou	skolopsoiu
to, for dative	skolopso	skolopsoi

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

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

skolopso 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

skolopsos“thorn”subjectnominative singular1×

2 Corinthians 12:7“thorn”kai ta huperbola taiu apokalupsiaiu. dio hina mē huperairimeiō, dōita mi skolopsos ta sarxa, angelos Satanaou, hina min kolafizateiō, hina mē huperairimeiō.or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.