ΣΚΗΠΤΡΑ, σκηπτρα
SKĒPTRA, skēptra
Sounds Like: SKEP-trah
Translations: scepters, a scepter, staff, rod
From the root: ΣΚΗΠΤΡΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a staff or rod, especially one carried by a ruler as a symbol of authority or sovereignty. It can also refer to a royal scepter, signifying kingly power or dominion. In a broader sense, it can mean a staff used for support or as a weapon.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G4626 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 32:2
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 4:61
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 8:65
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Samuel — 10:19, 10:20
- 1 Kings — 11:31, 11:32, 11:35, 11:36
- Odes — 6:9
- Wisdom — 10:14
- Sirach — 32:23
- Ezekiel — 30:18
- Habakkuk — 3:9
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΚΗΠΤΡΟΝ.
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.
- ΣΚΗΠΡΤΟΝ — scepter, a scepter, staff, a staff, rod, a rod
- ΣΚΗΠΤΑ — scepters, staffs, rods
- ΣΚΗΠΤΡΟΙΣ — scepters, (with) scepters, (by) scepters
- ΣΚΗΠΤΡΟΝ — scepter, a scepter, staff, a staff, rod, a rod
- ΣΚΗΠΤΡΟΥ — of a staff, of a scepter, of a rod
- ΣΚΗΠΤΡΩ — to a scepter, to a staff, to a rod, to a tribe, to a clan
- ΣΚΗΠΤΡΩΝ — of scepters, of staffs, of rods
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