skubalem

Strong’sG4657

refuse, dregs

stem skubal-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.

**† σκύβαλον, -ου, τό

[in LXX: Si 27:4 *;]

refuse, esp. dung (v. MM, ii, iii, xxiii): Phl 3:8.†

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

Strong’s G4657 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidskoo'-bal-on

what is thrown to the dogs, i.e. refuse (ordure)

Fromneuter of a presumed derivative of G1519 and G2965 and G906;

King Jamesdung.

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

σκῠβᾰλ-ον, τό,
dung, excrement, Refs 1st c.BC+; manure, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 refuse, offal, NT+4th c.AD+; ἀποδειπνίδιον σ. Refs 1st c.AD+; ἄνδρα, πολύκλαυτον ναυτιλίης σRefs; τέφρης λοιπὸν ἔτι σRefs 1st c.AD+; opposed to τὸ χρήσιμον, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ς. χόρτου Refs 3rd c.AD+; σ. ἀνθρώπου LXX

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.

rubbish1×

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 or object direct	skubalem	skubaleim
of, belonging to genitive	skubaleu	skubaleiu
to, for dative	skubale	skubalei

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

skubalstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

skubale 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

skubaleim1×

Philippians 3:8… hon teim panteim zēmiima, kai hēgomō skubaleim hina Christon kerdainameia… lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ