2001 Translation

SKEPĒS, skepēs

Sounds Like: skeh-PEES

Translations: of shelter, of covering, of protection, of refuge

From the root: ΣΚΕΠΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a covering, shelter, or protection. It is often used in the context of seeking or providing refuge or safety from danger or hardship. It can describe a physical covering or a more abstract sense of protection.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G4632 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:140

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 17 — 10:283

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 18:9
• Book Five — 2:22, 4:17

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 5:9
• 3 Maccabees — 5:6
• Ezekiel — 31:12

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΚΕΠΗ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΣΚΕΠΗ — shelter, a shelter, covering, a covering, protection, a protection
• ΣΚΕΠΗΝ — shelter, a shelter, covering, a covering, protection, a protection
• ΣΚΕΠΙΝΟΙΣ — (to) a covering, (to) a shelter, (to) a protection, (to) a roof

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