ΣΚΟΛΙΟΝ, σκολιον
SKOLION, skolion
Sounds Like: sko-LEE-on
Translations: crooked, perverse, twisted, warped, dishonest, unfair, a crooked thing, a perverse thing
From the root: ΣΚΟΛΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is not straight, either literally in a physical sense (like a crooked piece of wood) or figuratively in a moral sense (like perverse speech or dishonest actions). It implies a deviation from what is right, straight, or just.
Inflection: Neuter, Singular, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G4646 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 39:4
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 22:179
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
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
- ΣΚΟΛΙΑ — crooked, perverse, froward, a crooked thing, crooked things
- 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
- 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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