noun · masculine
skorpios
Strong’sG4651
a scorpion
stem skorpi-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books5 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.
σκορπίος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for עַקְרָב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4651 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidskor-pee'-os
a "scorpion" (from its sting)
Fromprobably from an obsolete σκέρπω (perhaps strengthened from the base of G4649 and meaning to pierce);
King Jamesscorpion.
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
scorpion, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. ὁ χερσαῖοςRefs 5th c.BC+; also σκορπίον ὀκτώπουν ἐγείρεις 'let sleeping dogs lie', Refs 4th c.BC+
II a sea-fish, probably Scorpaena scrofa, Refs 4th c.BC+; used (like the mugilis in Catull.15.19, LXX+5th c.BC+
III scorpion furze, Genista acanthoclada, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.2 scorpion root, Doronicum caucasicum, Refs
III.3 ={θηλυφόνον}, Refs
IV the constellation Refs 4th c.BC+
V an engine of war for discharging arrows, Refs 2nd c.BC+
VI a stone, 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.
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 | skorpios | skorpiois1×σκορπίοι |
| object accusative | skorpion1×σκορπίον | skorpioin |
| direct address vocative | skorpior | skorpioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | skorpiou1×σκορπίου | skorpioiu1×σκορπίων |
| to, for dative | skorpio | skorpioi1×σκορπίοις |
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
skorpio 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
skorpion“scorpion”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 11:12ē kai aitati ōem, epidōati auto skorpion?… an egg, will give him a scorpion?
skorpiou“scorpion”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 9:5… kai tos basanismos autaiu hōs basanismos skorpiou, hotan paiateia anthrōpon.… was like the stinging of a scorpion.
skorpiois“scorpions”subjectnominative plural1×
Revelation 9:3… autai exousias hōs echalō exousian tois skorpiois tau gēau.… given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
skorpioiu“scorpions”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Luke 10:19… exousian teu patarō epanō ofioiu kai skorpioiu, kai epi pantan tan dunamian tou …… authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of …
skorpioi“scorpions”to, fordative plural1×
Revelation 9:10kai echalō ourain homoiain skorpioi kai kentreim, kai en tai ourai …They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure …