noun · masculine
spilos
Strong’sG4696
a spot, fault
stem spil-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
* σπίλος (Rec. σπῖλος), -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4696 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidspee'-los
a stain or blemish, i.e. (figuratively) defect, disgrace
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesspot.
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
B spot, fleck, blemish, Refs 5th c.BC+; on the moon, Refs 1st c.AD+: metaphorically, stain of impurity or vice, NT+4th c.AD+; of persons, NT+1st c.BC+ Hdn.Gr.2.920; but ῐ in the equivalent σπιλάς (B) and in the compound ἄσπιλος.]
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | spilos | spilois1×σπίλοι |
| object accusative | spilon1×σπίλον | spiloin |
| direct address vocative | spilor | spiloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | spilou | spiloiu |
| to, for dative | spilo | spiloi |
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
spilo 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
spilon“spot”objectaccusative singular1×
Ephesians 5:27“spot”… heauto endoxan tan ekklēsan, mē echarōntan spilon ē rutidan ē tinem teiu toiouteiu, …… her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but …
spilois“blots”subjectnominative plural1×
2 Peter 2:13… hēdonan hēgorōntois tan en hēmera trufan, spilois kai mōmois entrufarōntois en tai apatai …… carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception …