Greek noun (neuter) · G4632
σκεῦος
skeuosskyoo'-os
vessel
23 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skeûos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4632is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4632
a vessel, implement, equipment or apparatus (literally or figuratively [specially, a wife as contributing to the usefulness of the husband])
The King James renders it: goods, sail, stuff, vessel.
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
skeuos is rendered "vessel". It stands 23 times in the Greek text, across twelve books.
- Five of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 12:29Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
Matthew 12:29σκεύη
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twelve of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a vessel6
- vessels6
- vessel4
- goods3
- article2
- gear1
- with a vessel1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σκευή | skeue | gear | Uses1 |
All 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings 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
- σκεῦος10
- σκεύη8
- σκεύει2
- σκεῦός2
- σκεύεσιν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular8N-ASN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural5N-APN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular4N-NSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural3N-NPN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular2N-DSN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1N-DPN
Matthew
one use
Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
- σκεύηskeuenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: goods
Mark
two uses
Indeed, no one can enter a strong man’s house to steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.
- σκεύηskeuenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: goods
And He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a vessel
Luke
two uses
No one lights a lamp and covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.
- σκεύειskeueinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with a vessel
On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
- σκεύηskeuenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: goods
John
one use
A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: A vessel
Acts
five uses
“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a vessel
He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
- σκεῦόςskeuosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a vessel
This happened three times, and all at once the sheet was taken back up into heaven.
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: vessel
“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
- σκεῦόςskeuosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a vessel
After hoisting it up, the crew used ropes to undergird the ship. And fearing that they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and were driven along.
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: gear
Romans
three uses
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: vessel
What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
- σκεύηskeuenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: vessels
What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
- σκεύηskeuenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: vessels
2 Corinthians
one use
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
- σκεύεσινskeuesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: vessels
1 Thessalonians
one use
each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: vessel
2 Timothy
two uses
A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.
- σκεύηskeuenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: vessels
So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a vessel
Hebrews
one use
In the same way, he sprinkled with blood the tabernacle and all the vessels used in worship.
- σκεύηskeuenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: vessels
1 Peter
one use
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
- σκεύειskeueinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: vessel
Revelation
three uses
He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery—just as I have received authority from My Father.
- σκεύηskeuenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: vessels
cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: article
- σκεῦοςskeuosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: article
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.