noun · masculine

skuthos

GreekΣκύθης (skuthēs)

Strong’sG4658

a Scythian

stem skuth-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Scythian1×

What it means

Σκύθης, -ου, ὁ

Scythian, an inhabitant of Scythia, i.e. Russia and Siberia, a synonym with the Greeks for the wildest of barbarians: Col 3:11.†

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

Strong’s G4658 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidskoo'-thace

a Scythene or Scythian, i.e. (by implication) a savage

Fromprobably of foreign origin;

King JamesScythian.

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	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	skuthos1×Σκύθης	skuthois
object accusative	skuthon	skuthoin
direct address vocative	skuthor	skuthoir
of, belonging to genitive	skuthou	skuthoiu
to, for dative	skutho	skuthoi

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

skuthstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

skutho 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

skuthos“Scythian”subjectnominative singular1×

Colossians 3:11“Scythian”hopou ouk eniatō Hellēnos kai Ioudaios, peritomas kai akrobustias, barbaros, Skuthos, doulos, eleutheros, alla teim panteim kai en pantei Christos.Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.