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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #4663 - σκώληξ

Transliteration

skṓlēx

Phonetics

sko'-lakes

Origin

of uncertain derivation

Parts of Speech

Noun Masculine

TDNT

7:452,1054

Definition

Thayer's

a worm, spec. that kind which preys upon dead bodies

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 7415 ‑ רִמָּה (rim‑maw'); 8438 ‑ תֹּלַעַת (to‑law', to‑lay‑aw', (3,4) to‑lah'‑ath);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (3)

Mark

NAS (3)

Mark

HCS (1)

Mark

BSB (1)

Mark

ESV (1)

Mark

WEB (3)

Mark

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

σκώληξ, ηκος, ὁ, worm, esp. earthworm, ὥς τε σκώληξ ἐπὶ γαίῃ κεῖτο ταθείς Il. 13.654 .

2. pl., grubs or larvae of insects, Ar. V. 1111, Fr. 583, Nicopho 1, Thphr. HP 8.10.4; ἐξ οὗ ὅλου ὅλον γίνεται τὸ ζῷον, opp. the egg ( ᾠόν ), Arist. HA 489b8, cf. GA 733a1, HA 506a26, 551b2, al.

3. pl., worms in dung, in decayed matter, in trees and wood, Thphr. HP 3.12.6, 5.4.4, etc.

4. metaph., οἱ κόλακές εἰσι . . οὐσίας σκώληκες Anaxil. 33.1 .

5. aerugo vermicularis, Dsc. 5.79, Androm. ap. Gal. 13.806.

II thread twisted from the distaff, Epig. 7 . III Aeol. for κολόκυμα, Pl.Com. 25, cf. Phryn. PS p.108 B., Hsch., Phot. worm-shaped cake, Alciphr. Fr. 6. heap of threshed corn, Hsch.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

σκώληξ , -ηκος , ὁ ,

[in LXX chiefly for H8438 and cogn. forms;]

a worm: of the kind which preys upon dead bodies, metaph., of fut. punishment, Mark 9:48 (LXX, Isaiah 66:24; cf. Sirach 7:17, Judith 16:17).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

first met with in the Middle Comedy (Rutherford NP p. 475) = ";feel strong and hearty"; : cf. the cognate Lat. strenuus, Engl. ";stern."; According to Hesychius στρηνιῶντες = πεπλεγμένοι. δηλοῖ δὲ καὶ τὸ διὰ πλοῦτον ὑβρίζειν, καὶ βαρέως φέρειν. It is in this bad sense ";wax wanton"; through wealth etc. that the verb is used in Revelation 18:7; Revelation 18:9 : cf. P Meyer 20.23 (1st half iii/A.D.) μ ̣ὴ στρηνιάτω Λουκιᾶς, ἀλλὰ ἐργαζέσθω. The compd καταστρηνιάω in 1 Timothy 5:11 is rendered by Souter ";exercise my youthful vigour against"; : for similar κατα -compds see Blass-Debrunner Gr. § 181.

List of Word Forms

σκώλα σκώληκας σκώληκι σκωλήκων σκωληξ σκώληξ σκώλον skolex skōlēx skṓlex skṓlēx

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