2001 Translation

SKOLIA, skolia

Sounds Like: sko-LEE-ah

Translations: crooked, perverse, froward, a crooked thing, crooked things

From the root: ΣΚΟΛΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes something that is not straight, either literally (crooked, winding) or figuratively (perverse, morally twisted, dishonest). It can refer to paths that are not direct, or to people and generations that are morally corrupt or disobedient. It implies a deviation from what is right or straight.

Inflection: Feminine, Singular, Nominative or Vocative; or Neuter, Plural, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G4646 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 20:1

Codex Sinaiticus

• Psalms — 77:8
• Proverbs — 23:33
• Isaiah — 40:4
• Luke — 3:5

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Three — 6:9

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 50:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 32:5
• Psalms — 77:8
• Odes — 2:5
• Proverbs — 23:33
• Isaiah — 40:4, 42:16
• Hosea — 9:8

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 3:5

From the same root

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

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.

• ΣΚΟΙΛΙΑ — crooked, bent, perverse, froward, unfair, dishonest
• ΣΚΟΛΙΑΙ — crooked, bent, perverse, twisted, difficult
• ΣΚΟΛΙΑΙΣ — to crooked, to perverse, to froward
• ΣΚΟΛΙΑΣ — (of) crooked, (of) perverse, (of) unjust, crooked, perverse, unjust
• ΣΚΟΛΙΟΙ — crooked, perverse, froward, unfair, dishonest, unjust
• ΣΚΟΛΙΟΙΣ — to crooked, to perverse, to unfair, to dishonest, to froward
• ΣΚΟΛΙΟΝ — crooked, perverse, twisted, warped, dishonest, unfair, a crooked thing, a perverse thing
• ΣΚΟΛΙΟΣ — crooked, perverse, dishonest, a crooked one, a perverse one, a dishonest one
• ΣΚΟΛΙΟΥΣ — crooked, perverse, froward, a crooked, a perverse, a froward
• ΣΚΟΛΙΩΝ — of crooked, of perverse, of twisted, of bent, of winding
• ΣΚΟΛΙΩΣ — perversely, crookedly, frowardly, wrongly

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