2001 Translation

SKYLA, skyla

Sounds Like: SKOO-lah

Translations: spoils, plunder, booty

From the root: ΣΚΥΛΟΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the spoils of war, meaning the goods, property, or valuables taken from an enemy after a victory in battle or conquest. It is typically used in a collective sense to describe the items seized as plunder.

Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G4657 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 16:13

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judges — 5:30
• Esther — 8:11
• Judith — 9:4
• 1 Maccabees — 1:3, 1:19, 1:31, 1:35, 3:12, 4:18, 5:3, 5:22, 5:28, 5:35, 5:51, 5:68, 7:47, 9:40, 10:84, 10:87, 11:48, 11:51, 12:31
• Psalms — 67:13, 118:162
• Proverbs — 16:19
• Isaiah — 8:4, 9:2, 10:6, 33:4, 49:24, 49:25
• Zechariah — 2:13, 14:1
• Luke — 11:22

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 7 — 7:161
• Book 12 — 7:312, 8:334, 8:353
• Book 15 — 11:402

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 18:8
• Book Four — 3:61, 4:19

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:7, 43:6, 66:3, 77:2, 77:3, 78:9

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 15:9
• Numbers — 31:11, 31:12, 31:27
• Deuteronomy — 2:35, 3:7, 7:16, 13:16
• Joshua — 11:14
• Judges — 5:30
• 1 Samuel — 14:32, 15:19, 23:3, 30:20
• 2 Samuel — 3:22, 12:30
• 2 Kings — 3:23
• 1 Chronicles — 20:2
• 2 Chronicles — 14:13, 14:14, 20:25, 24:23, 25:13, 28:8, 28:14
• Judith — 9:4
• 1 Maccabees — 1:3, 1:19, 1:31, 1:35, 4:18, 5:3, 5:22, 5:28, 5:35, 5:51, 5:68, 7:47, 10:84, 10:87, 11:48, 11:51, 12:31
• 2 Maccabees — 8:27
• Psalms — 67:13, 118:162
• Psalms of Solomon — 5:4
• Odes — 1:9
• Proverbs — 16:19
• Isaiah — 8:4, 9:3, 10:6, 33:4, 49:24, 49:25, 53:12
• Jeremiah — 21:9
• Ezekiel — 7:21, 29:19, 30:24, 38:12, 38:13
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 11:24
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 11:24
• Zechariah — 2:9, 14:1

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 11:22

From the same root

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

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.

• ΣΚΥΛΟΙΣ — spoils, plunder, booty
• ΣΚΥΛΟΝ — dog, a dog
• ΣΚΥΛΩΝ — of spoils, of plunder, of booty

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