2001 Translation

SKŌLĒKŌN, skōlēkōn

Sounds Like: skoh-LEE-kohn

Translations: of worms, worms

From the root: ΣΚΩΛΗΞ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to worms or maggots. As a genitive plural noun, it indicates possession or relationship, meaning 'of worms' or 'belonging to worms'. It can be used to describe something associated with or made up of worms.

Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Masculine

Strong’s number: G4663 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:13

Codex Sinaiticus

• Job — 2:9, 7:5

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 1:30

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Job — 2:9, 7:5

From the same root

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

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.

• ΣΚΩΛΗΚΑ — worm, a worm
• ΣΚΩΛΗΚΑΣ — worms, maggots
• ΣΚΩΛΗΚΕΣ — worms
• ΣΚΩΛΗΚΙ — (to) a worm, (to) worm, (for) a worm, (for) worm
• ΣΚΩΛΗΚΟΣ — of a worm, of the worm, of a maggot, of the maggot
• ΣΚΩΛΗΞ — worm, a worm, maggot, a maggot
• ΣΚΩΛΗΞʼ — worm, a worm, maggot, a maggot

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