σκεῦος skeuos

Greek word for “vessel” · Strong’s G4632 · used 23 times in 22 verses

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Meaning

σκεῦος, -ους, τό; a vessel, implement (for exx.

How it is translated

Glosses given for skeuos in context, with how often each is used:

• vessel 11
• vessels 6
• goods 3
• article 2
• gear 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Romans 9 (3), Acts 10 (2), 2 Timothy 2 (2), Matthew 12 (1), Mark 3 (1), Mark 11 (1), Luke 8 (1), Luke 17 (1), John 19 (1), Acts 9 (1)

Forms

• σκεῦος 10
• σκεύη 8
• σκεύει 2
• σκεῦός 2
• σκεύεσιν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with skeuos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• τιμή timē “honor” 5
• οἰκία oikia “home” 4
• ὁμοίως homoiōs “similarly” 3
• διαρπάζω diarpazō “to rob” 2
• ὀθόνη othonē “sheet” 2
• ὀστράκινος ostrakinos “clay” 2
• καθίημι kathiēmi “to lower” 2
• ἀτιμία atimia “dishonour” 2
• καταβαίνω katabainō “to come/go down” 3
• γνωρίζω gnōrizō “to make known” 2
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 4
• ἰσχυρός ischuros “strong” 2

Key verses

The verses using skeuos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Mark 3:27 — No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
• Luke 17:31 — In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him…
• Acts 9:15 — But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
• Acts 10:11 — And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
• Romans 9:21 — Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
• Romans 9:22 — What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
• Romans 9:23 — And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
• 2 Corinthians 4:7 — But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
• 2 Timothy 2:20 — But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
• 2 Timothy 2:21 — If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
• 1 Peter 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace…
• Revelation 2:27 — And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.