adjective
skuthrōpos
Strong’sG4659
gloomy, sad-countenanced
stem skuthrōp-2 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.
σκυθρωπός, -όν (also -ή, -όν)
(< σκυθρός, sullen, + ὤψ), [in LXX: Ge 40:7 (רַע), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4659 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidskoo-thro-pos'
angry-visaged, i.e. gloomy or affecting a mournful appearance
Fromfrom σκυθρός (sullen) and a derivative of G3700;
King Jamesof a sad countenance.
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
also ή, όν Refs 5th c.BC+: (σκυθρός, ὤψ):— of sad or angry countenance, sullen, Refs 5th c.BC+; also of affected gravity, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb, -πῶς ἔχειν Refs 5th c.BC+ with greater severity, Refs 1st c.AD+
II of things, gloomy, sad, melancholy, γῆρας Refs 5th c.BC+; μέλη Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 of colour, sad-coloured, dark and dull, of the river Μέλας, Refs 4th c.AD+; of wine,Refs
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 | skuthrōpos | skuthrōpas | skuthrōpem | skuthrōpois2×σκυθρωποί | skuthrōpais | skuthrōpeim |
| object accusative | skuthrōpon | skuthrōpan | skuthrōpoin | skuthrōpain | ||
| direct address vocative | skuthrōpor | skuthrōpar | skuthrōpoir | skuthrōpair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | skuthrōpou | skuthrōpau | skuthrōpeu | skuthrōpoiu | skuthrōpaiu | skuthrōpeiu |
| to, for dative | skuthrōpo | skuthrōpa | skuthrōpe | skuthrōpoi | skuthrōpai | skuthrōpei |
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
skuthrōp 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
skuthrōpois“gloomy”subjectnominative plural2×
Matthew 6:16“gloomy”… nēsteuaveiō, mē genovōr hōs tois hupokritois skuthrōpois, afanizalō gar teim prosōpeim autoiu hopōs …When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show …
Luke 24:17“looking sad”… antiballavō pros allēloin peripatarōntois? kai stēila skuthrōpois.… are you discussing so intently as you walk along?” They stood still, with sadness on …