Greek verb · G4654
σκοτίζω
skotizoskot-id-zo
to darken
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skotízō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4654is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4654
to obscure (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: darken.
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
skotizo is rendered "to darken". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
Matthew 24:29σκοτισθήσεται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- will be darkened2
- may be darkened1
- should be darkened1
- was darkened1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- σκοτισθήσεται2
- ἐσκοτίσθη1
- σκοτισθῇ1
- σκοτισθήτωσαν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-FPI-3S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
- verb · aorist passive, command · 3rd person plural1V-APM-3P
- verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-APS-3S
Matthew
one use
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
- σκοτισθήσεταιskotisthesetaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will be darkened
Mark
one use
But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
- σκοτισθήσεταιskotisthesetaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will be darkened
Romans
two uses
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- ἐσκοτίσθηeskotistheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was darkened
May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”
- σκοτισθήτωσανskotisthetosanverb · aorist passive, command · 3rd person pluraltagged: should be darkened
Revelation
one use
Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
- σκοτισθῇskotistheaverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may be darkened
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.