σκότος skotos

Greek word for “darkness” · Strong’s G4655 · used 31 times in 30 verses

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Meaning

σκότος, -ου, ὁ the more usual cl. form (cf.σ., τό); darkness:, Rec.†;

How it is translated

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

• darkness 30
• darkness? 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ephesians 5 (2), 1 Thessalonians 5 (2), Matthew 4 (1), Matthew 6 (1), Matthew 8 (1), Matthew 22 (1), Matthew 25 (1), Matthew 27 (1), Mark 15 (1), Luke 1 (1)

Forms

• σκότος 14
• σκότους 12
• σκότει 5

Words used with it

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

• φῶς phōs “light” 12
• ἐξώτερος exōteros “outer” 3
• βρυγμός brugmos “gnashing” 3
• κλαυθμός klauthmos “weeping” 3
• ἔννατος ennatos “ninth (hour)” 3
• ὀδούς odous “tooth” 3
• ἕκτος hektos “sixth” 3
• ἐξουσία exousia “authority” 4
• ὥρα hōra “hour” 4
• ἕως heōs “until” 4
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 5
• ζόφος zophos “darkness” 2

Key verses

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

• Luke 1:79 — To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
• John 3:19 — And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
• Acts 26:18 — To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance…
• 1 Corinthians 4:5 — Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels…
• 2 Corinthians 4:6 — For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of…
• 2 Corinthians 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• Ephesians 5:8 — For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• Ephesians 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
• Ephesians 6:12 — For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual…
• Colossians 1:13 — Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
• 1 Peter 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of…
• Jude 1:13 — Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

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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.