skolopos

Strong’sG4647

a stake or thorn

stem skolop-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.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

σκόλοψ, οπος, ὁ,
anything pointed: especially pale, stake, κεφαλὴν πῆξαι ἀνὰ σκολόπεσσι Refs 8th c.BC+, palisade, τείχεα.. σκολόπεσσιν ἀρηρότα Refs 8th c.BC+
2 thorn, NT+4th c.BC+
3 an instrument for operating on the urethra, Refs 1st c.AD+
4 point of a fishing-hook, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II tree, 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.

thorn1×

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	skolopos1×σκόλοψ	skolopois
object accusative	skolopon	skolopoin
direct address vocative	skolopor	skolopoir
of, belonging to genitive	skolopou	skolopoiu
to, for dative	skolopo	skolopoi

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

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

skolopo 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

skolopos“thorn”subjectnominative singular1×

2 Corinthians 12:7… dio hina mē huperairomeiō, dōita mi skolopos ta sarka, angelos Satanou, hina min …… becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of …