Greek noun (feminine) · G4653
σκοτία
skotiaskot-ee'-ah
darkness
16 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skotía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4653is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4653
dimness, obscurity (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: dark(-ness).
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
skotia is rendered "darkness". It stands 16 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Eight of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 10:27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
Matthew 10:27σκοτίᾳ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- darkness14
- dark1
- when dark1
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 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- σκοτίᾳ9
- σκοτία6
- σκοτίας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular9N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular6N-NSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
Matthew
one use
What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
- σκοτίᾳskotianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
Luke
one use
What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
- σκοτίᾳskotianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
John
eight uses
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- σκοτίᾳskotianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
- σκοτίαskotianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was already dark, and Jesus had not yet gone out to them.
- σκοτίαskotianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: dark
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- σκοτίᾳskotianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
- σκοτίαskotianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
- σκοτίᾳskotianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
- σκοτίᾳskotianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
- σκοτίαςskotiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: when dark
1 John
six uses
And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
- σκοτίαskotianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.
- σκοτίαskotianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
- σκοτίᾳskotianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- σκοτίᾳskotianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
- σκοτίᾳskotianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
- σκοτίαskotianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: darkness
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.