Greek noun (masculine) · G4647
σκόλοψ
skolopsskol'-ops
in cl., a stake; In Hellenistic vernacular, a thorn
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skólops
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4647is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4647
withered at the front, i.e. a point or prickle (figuratively, a bodily annoyance or disability)
The King James renders it: thorn.
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
skolops is rendered "in cl., a stake; In Hellenistic vernacular, a thorn". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in 2 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "in cl., a stake".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
The first use
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
2 Corinthians 12:7σκόλοψ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: in cl., a stake, and In Hellenistic vernacular, a thorn.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| in cl., a stake | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited… |
| In Hellenistic vernacular, a thorn | Tagged as
| Where2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited… |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| σκολιός | skolios | crooked | Uses4 |
All 1, 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
- σκόλοψ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
2 Corinthians
one use
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
- σκόλοψskolopsnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a thorn
Where it leads
On this page
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.