2001 Translation

SKOTEI, skotei

Sounds Like: SKO-teh-ee

Translations: (to) darkness, (to) a darkness, (to) gloom, (to) a gloom

From the root: ΣΚΟΤΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to darkness or gloom. It is an inflected form of the noun 'σκότος' (skotos), meaning 'darkness'. In this dative case, it indicates the recipient or location of an action, often translated with 'to' or 'in' (when preceded by 'ἐν'). It is commonly used to describe a lack of light, but can also refer to spiritual or moral darkness.

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G4655 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 103:8

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 10:10, 14:7

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:6, 2:38, 8:3, 11:9, 11:10, 11:13

Codex Sinaiticus

• Tobit — 5:10
• Psalms — 81:5, 90:6
• Proverbs — 7:9
• Job — 28:3
• 1 Thessalonians — 5:4

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 1:27

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 15:6, 26:2, 65:4, 124:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 28:29
• Joshua — 2:5
• 2 Kings — 7:5, 7:7
• Ezra (Alpha) — 4:24
• Tobit — 5:10
• 2 Maccabees — 3:27
• Psalms — 81:5, 87:13, 90:6, 106:10, 111:4
• Odes — 13:79
• Proverbs — 7:9
• Ecclesiastes — 2:14, 5:16, 6:4
• Job — 24:16, 28:3, 29:3
• Wisdom — 18:4, 19:17
• Isaiah — 9:2, 29:15, 29:18, 42:7, 49:9, 50:10, 58:10
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:70
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:22
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:22
• Micah — 7:8

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 4:16
• Luke — 1:79
• Romans — 2:19
• 1 Thessalonians — 5:4
• 1 John — 1:6

From the same root

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

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.

• ΣΚΟΤΕΙΝΗ — dark, gloomy, obscure, a dark (one)
• ΣΚΟΤΕΙΝΟΣ — dark, gloomy, full of darkness, a dark (thing)
• ΣΚΟΤΙ — darkness, a darkness, gloom, obscurity
• ΣΚΟΤΙΑ — darkness, a darkness
• ΣΚΟΤΙΝΟΣ — dark, gloomy, full of darkness
• ΣΚΟΤΙΟΝ — darkness, a dark place, gloom
• ΣΚΟΤΟΙ — darkness, a darkness, gloom, shadows
• ΣΚΟΤΟΝ — darkness, gloom, a darkness, a gloom
• ΣΚΟΤΟΣ — darkness, gloom, a darkness
• ΣΚΟΤΟΥΣ — of darkness, of gloom

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