Greek verb · G4656
σκοτόω
skotooskot-o'-o
to darken
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skotóō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4656is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4656
to obscure or blind (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: be full of darkness.
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
skotoo is rendered "to darken". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ephesians 4:18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
Ephesians 4:18ἐσκοτωμένοι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- darkened2
- 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 3, 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
- ἐσκοτώθη1
- ἐσκοτωμένη1
- ἐσκοτωμένοι1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
- verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-RPP-NPM
- verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-RPP-NSF
Ephesians
one use
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
- ἐσκοτωμένοιeskotomenoiverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: darkened
Revelation
two uses
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
- ἐσκοτώθηeskototheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was darkened
And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish
- ἐσκοτωμένηeskotomeneverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: 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.