2001 Translation

SKELĒ, skelē

Sounds Like: SKEH-lee

Translations: legs, limbs

From the root: ΣΚΕΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the legs or limbs of a body. It is typically used in a plural sense to describe the lower extremities that support the body and are used for movement.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G4628 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:93, 1:151

Codex Sinaiticus

• 4 Maccabees — 10:6
• John — 19:31, 19:32, 19:33

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Leviticus — 11:21
• 2 Samuel — 22:37
• 4 Maccabees — 10:6
• Ezekiel — 1:7, 16:25
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 10:6
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:33
• Amos — 3:12

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• John — 19:31, 19:32, 19:33

From the same root

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

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.

• ΣΚΕΛΕΙ — to leg, to thigh, to shin, to bone
• ΣΚΕΛΕΣΙΝ — (to) legs, (to) limbs
• ΣΚΕΛΟΣ — leg, a leg, shank, thigh
• ΣΚΕΛΟΥΣ — of a leg, of the leg, of a thigh, of the thigh
• ΣΚΕΛΩΝ — of legs

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