Greek noun (neuter) · G4628
σκέλος
skelosskel'-os
leg
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skélos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4628is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4628
through the idea of leanness); the leg (as lank)
The King James renders it: leg.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
skelos is rendered "leg". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 19:31It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
The first use
It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
John 19:31σκέλη
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- legs3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σκέλη3
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural3N-APN
John
three uses
It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
- σκέληskelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: legs
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other.
- σκέληskelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: legs
But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
- σκέληskelenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: legs
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.