adjective
skoteinem
Strong’sG4652
full of darkness, dark
stem skotein-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 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.
σκοτεινός (WH. -τινός), -ή, -όν
(< σκότος), [in LXX chiefly for חֹשֶׁךְ and cogn. forms;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(σκότος) dark, νυκτὸς ἅρμ᾽ ἐπείγεται σ. Refs 4th c.BC+; σ. περιβολαί, of a scabbard, Refs 5th c.BC+; [ὁδοί] Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀνὰ τὸ σ. προϊδεῖν in the darkness, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a person, blind, καίπερ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ σ. the dark shadows in a picture, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb, σκοτεινὸν ζῆν to live in privacy, Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, dark, obscure, opposed to ἐλλόγιμος καὶ φανός, Refs; Heraclitus was called ὁ σκοτεινός, Refs 4th c.BC+; σ. ἀκοαί obscure reports, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. μηχανήματα dark, secret, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb, -νῶς διαλέγεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+
III probably falsa lectio for{κοτ-} in 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 | 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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
skoteinem“full of darkness”subject or objectdirect singular3×
Matthew 6:23… ponēros ateiō, holem tem sōmem su skoteinem eti. ei oun tem fōtem tem …… bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you …
Luke 11:34… ponēros ateiō, kai tem sōmem su skoteinem.… they are bad, your body is full of darkness.
Luke 11:36“dark”… holem fōteinem, mē echarōntem merem tinem skoteinem, eti fōteinem holem hōs hotan tos …… if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a …