4653. skotia
Strong's Concordance
skotia: darkness
Original Word: σκοτία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: skotia
Phonetic Spelling: (skot-ee'-ah)
Definition: darkness
Usage: darkness; fig: spiritual darkness.
HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 4653 skotía (a feminine noun) – darkness, a brand of moral, spiritual obscurity (i.e. which blocks the light of God when faith is lacking). See also 4655 /skótos ("darkness").

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from skotos
Definition
darkness
NASB Translation
dark (3), darkness (14).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4653: σκοτία

σκοτία, σκοτίας, (on its derivation cf. σκηνή), (Thomas Magister, σκότος καί τό σκότος. τό δέ σκοτία οὐκ ἐν χρησει namely, in Attic (cf. Moeris, under the word; Liddell and Scott, under the word σκότος, at the end)), darkness: properly, the darkness due to want of daylight, John 6:17; John 20:1; ἐν τῇ σκοτία (λαλεῖν τί), unseen, in secret (equivalent to ἐν κρύπτω, John 18:20), privily, in private, opposed to ἐν τῷ φωτί, Matthew 10:27; Luke 12:3; metaphorically, used of ignorance of divine things, and its associated wickedness, and the resultant misery: Matthew 4:16 L Tr WH; John 1:5; John 6:17; John 8:12; John 12:35, 46; 1 John 1:5; 1 John 2:8f, 11. (Ap. Rh. 4, 1698; Anth. 8, 187. 190; for חָשְׁכָה Micah 3:6; for אֹפֶל, Job 28:3.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
darkness.

From skotos; dimness, obscurity (literally or figuratively) -- dark(-ness).

see GREEK skotos

Forms and Transliterations
σκότει σκοτια σκοτία σκοτίᾳ σκοτιας σκοτίας skotei skótei skotia skotía skotíāi skotias skotías
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 10:27 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ εἴπατε ἐν
NAS: I tell you in the darkness, speak
KJV: you in darkness, [that] speak ye in
INT: in the darkness speak in

Luke 12:3 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ εἴπατε ἐν
NAS: you have said in the dark will be heard
KJV: in darkness shall be heard
INT: in the darkness you said in

John 1:5 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει καὶ
NAS: shines in the darkness, and the darkness
KJV: shineth in darkness; and the darkness
INT: in the darkness shines and

John 1:5 N-NFS
GRK: καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ
NAS: in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend
KJV: and the darkness comprehended
INT: and the darkness it not

John 6:17 N-NFS
GRK: Καφαρναούμ καὶ σκοτία ἤδη ἐγεγόνει
NAS: become dark, and Jesus
KJV: it was now dark, and Jesus
INT: Capernaum And dark already it had become

John 8:12 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ ἀλλ' ἕξει
NAS: Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have
KJV: walk in darkness, but shall have
INT: in the darkness but will have

John 12:35 N-NFS
GRK: ἵνα μὴ σκοτία ὑμᾶς καταλάβῃ
NAS: so that darkness will not overtake
KJV: lest darkness come upon
INT: that not darkness you might overtake

John 12:35 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ οὐκ οἶδεν
NAS: you; he who walks in the darkness does not know
KJV: in darkness knoweth
INT: in the darkness not knows

John 12:46 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ μὴ μείνῃ
NAS: in Me will not remain in darkness.
KJV: abide in darkness.
INT: in the darkness not might abide

John 20:1 N-GFS
GRK: ἔρχεται πρωὶ σκοτίας ἔτι οὔσης
NAS: while it was still dark, and saw
KJV: yet dark, unto
INT: comes early dark still it being

1 John 1:5 N-NFS
GRK: ἐστὶν καὶ σκοτία οὐκ ἔστιν
NAS: and in Him there is no darkness at all.
KJV: is no darkness at all.
INT: is and darkness not is

1 John 2:8 N-NFS
GRK: ὅτι ἡ σκοτία παράγεται καὶ
NAS: in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away
KJV: you: because the darkness is past, and
INT: because the darkness is passing away and

1 John 2:9 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ ἐστὶν ἕως
NAS: his brother is in the darkness until
KJV: is in darkness even until now.
INT: in the darkness is until

1 John 2:11 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ ἐστὶν καὶ
NAS: his brother is in the darkness and walks
KJV: is in darkness, and walketh
INT: in the darkness is and

1 John 2:11 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ περιπατεῖ καὶ
NAS: and walks in the darkness, and does not know
KJV: walketh in darkness, and knoweth
INT: in the darkness walks and

1 John 2:11 N-NFS
GRK: ὅτι ἡ σκοτία ἐτύφλωσεν τοὺς
NAS: because the darkness has blinded
KJV: because that darkness hath blinded
INT: because the darkness blinded the

Strong's Greek 4653
16 Occurrences


σκοτίᾳ — 15 Occ.
σκοτίας — 1 Occ.

















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