Greek verb · G4640
σκιρτάω
skirtaoskeer-tah'-o
to leap
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skirtáō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4640is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4640
to jump, i.e. sympathetically move (as the quickening of a fetus)
The King James renders it: leap (for joy).
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
skirtao is rendered "to leap". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Luke 1:41ἐσκίρτησεν
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 Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- leaped2
- do leap for joy1
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.
2 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
- ἐσκίρτησεν2
- σκιρτήσατε1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person plural1V-AAM-2P
Luke
three uses
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
- ἐσκίρτησενeskirtesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: leaped
For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
- ἐσκίρτησενeskirtesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: leaped
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.
- σκιρτήσατεskirtesateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do leap for joy
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.