adjective

skoteinem

Greekσκοτεινός (skoteinos)

Strong’sG4652

full of darkness, dark

stem skotein-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

full of darkness2×dark1×

What it means

σκοτεινός (WH. -τινός), -ή, -όν

(< σκότος), [in LXX chiefly for חֹשֶׁךְ and cogn. forms;]

dark: opp. to φωτεινός, Mt 6:23, Lk 11:34, 36.†

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

Strong’s G4652 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidskot-i-nos'

opaque, i.e. (figuratively) benighted

Fromfrom G4655;

King Jamesdark, full of darkness.

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	skoteinos	skoteinas	skoteinem3×σκοτεινὸν	skoteinois	skoteinais	skoteineim
object accusative	skoteinon	skoteinan		skoteinoin	skoteinain
direct address vocative	skoteinor	skoteinar		skoteinoir	skoteinair
of, belonging to genitive	skoteinou	skoteinau	skoteineu	skoteinoiu	skoteinaiu	skoteineiu
to, for dative	skoteino	skoteina	skoteine	skoteinoi	skoteinai	skoteinei

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

skoteinstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

skotein 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

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

skoteinem“full of darkness”subject or objectdirect singular3×

Matthew 6:23“full of darkness”ean de tos ofthalmos su ponēros ateiō, holem tem sōmem su skoteinem eti. ei oun tem fōtem tem en si skotem atō, tem skotem posem.But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Luke 11:34“full of darkness”tos luchnos teu sōmeu atō tos ofthalmos su. hotan tos ofthalmos su haplouos ateiō, kai holem tem sōmem su fōteinem atō; epan de ponēros ateiō, kai tem sōmem su skoteinem.Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.

Luke 11:36“dark”ei oun tem sōmem su holem fōteinem, mē echarōtem merem tinem skoteinem, eti fōteinem holem hōs hotan tos luchnos ta astrapa fōtizateiō sin.So if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining on you.”