noun · masculine
skopos
Strong’sG4649
a goal
stem skop-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.
σκοπός, -οῦ, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for צֹפֶה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4649 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidskop-os'
perhaps akin to G4626 through the idea of concealment; compare G4629); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by implication) a goal
Fromfrom σκέπτομαι (to peer about ("skeptic");
King Jamesmark.
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
(also ἡ, Refs 8th c.BC+: (σκέπτομαι):— one that watches, one that looks about or after things, παρὰ δὲ σκοπὸν εἷσεν Refs 8th c.BC+; γυναικῶν δμῳάων σ. ἐσσι, of a housekeeper, Refs 8th c.BC+, of gods and kings, with genitive loci, guardian, protector, Ὀλύμπου σ. Refs; Μαγνήτων σ., of Peleus, Refs 5th c.BC+
b one who watches or looks out to take advantage, Refs 8th c.BC+; watchful, jealous master, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 mostly, lookout-man, watcher, stationed in some high place (σκοπιά) to overlook a country, especially in war, Refs 8th c.BC+: also, game-watcher, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 spy, scout, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a messenger who has been sent to learn tidings, Refs 5th c.BC+
II mark or object on which one fixes the eye, σκοπὸν ἄλλον, ὃν οὔ πώ τις βάλεν ἀνήρ, εἴσομαι αἴ κε τύχωμι Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀπὸ σκοποῦ away from the mark, Refs; ἀπὸ σ. εἰρηκέναι, εἰρῆσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; σκοπῷ ἐπέχειν τόξον to aim at it,Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 metaphorically, aim, end, object, οὗτος.. δοκεῖ ὁ σ. εἶναι πρὸς ὃν βλέποντα δεῖ ζῆν Refs 4th c.BC+; σκοπός.. nihil praebere 'his little game' is to make no allowance, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2.b in Medicine texts, of healing, ἐπὶ τῷ πρώτῳ σ. by first intention (i.e. direct union), κατὰ δεύτερον σ. by second intention (i.e. granulation or scar tissue), Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 contest in shooting at a mark, σ. ἱππέων, πεζῶν, Refs
III name of a dance, 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | skopos | skopois |
| object accusative | skopon1×σκοπὸν | skopoin |
| direct address vocative | skopor | skopoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | skopou | skopoiu |
| to, for dative | skopo | skopoi |
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
skopo 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
skopon“goal”objectaccusative singular1×
Philippians 3:14kata skopon diōkamō eis tem brabeiem tau anō …I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s …