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Greek adjective · G4659

σκυθρωπός

skythroposskoo-thro-pos'

sad

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: skythrōpós

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4659is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4659

angry-visaged, i.e. gloomy or affecting a mournful appearance

The King James renders it: of a sad countenance.

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

skythropos is rendered "sad". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:16When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

The first use

When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

Matthew 6:16σκυθρωποί

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Matthew.

The other 25 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • gloomy1
  • looking sad1

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 2, 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

  • σκυθρωποί2

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2A-NPM

Matthew

one use
  • When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

    Matthew 6:16

    • σκυθρωποίskuthropoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: gloomy

Luke

one use
  • He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?” They stood still, with sadness on their faces.

    Luke 24:17

    • σκυθρωποίskuthropoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: looking sad

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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