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noun · masculine

GreekΣκύθης (skuthēs)
Biblang

skuthos

Strong’sG4658

a Scythian

stem skuth-once in the New Testament1 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.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Σκύθ-ης, ου, ὁ:
vocative Σκύθᾰ Refs 8th c.BC+, of a desert, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, rude, rough person, ἐν λόγοις Σ. Refs 4th c.BC+
2 adjective Refs 4th c.BC+; σίδηρος Refs 4th c.BC+
II at Athens, one of the city police, which was mainly composed of Scythian slaves, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ={ἱπποτοξότης}, Refs 2nd 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.

Scythian1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeskuthos1×Σκύθηςskuthois
object accusativeskuthonskuthoin
direct address vocativeskuthorskuthoir
of, belonging to genitiveskuthouskuthoiu
to, for dativeskuthoskuthoi

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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

skuthos“Scythian”subjectnominative singular1×

Colossians 3:11… kai Ioudaios, peritomas kai akrobustias, barbaros, Skuthos, doulos, eleutheros, alla teim panteim kai …… or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is …