◄ 4657. skubalon ►
Strong's Lexicon skubalon: Refuse, rubbish, dung, garbage Original Word: σκύβαλον Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: skubalon Pronunciation: SKOO-bah-lon Phonetic Spelling: (skoo'-bal-on) Definition: Refuse, rubbish, dung, garbage Meaning: refuse, dregs, dung. HELPS Word-studies 4657 skýbalon (from 2965 /kýōn, "dog" and 906 /bállō, "throw") – properly, waste thrown to dogs, like filthy scraps of garbage (table-scraps, dung, muck, sweepings); (figuratively) refuse, what is good-for-nothing except to be discarded (used only in Phil 3:8). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin of uncertain origin Definition refuse NASB Translation rubbish (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4657: σκύβαλον σκύβαλον, σκυβαλου, τό (κυσιβαλον τί ὄν, τό τοῖς κυσί βαλλόμενον, Suidas (p. 3347 c.; to the same effect Etym. Magn., p. 719, 53 cf. 125, 44; others connect it with σκῶρ (cf. scoria, Latinstercus), others with a root meaning 'to shiver', 'shred'; Fick, Part i., p. 244)), any refuse, as the excrement of animals, offscouring, rubbish, dregs, etc.: (A. V. dung) i. e. worthless and detestable, Philippians 3:8. (Sir. 27:4; Philo; Josephus, b. j. 5, 13, 7; Plutarch; Strabo; often in the Anthol.) (See on the word, Lightfoot on Philippians, the passage cited; Gataker, Advers. Miscell. Posth., c. xliii, p. 868ff.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance garbage, dung. Neuter of a presumed derivative of eis and kuon and ballo; what is thrown to the dogs, i.e. Refuse (ordure) -- dung. see GREEK eis see GREEK kuon see GREEK ballo Forms and Transliterations σκυβαλα σκύβαλα skubala skybala skýbala Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Philippians 3:8 N-ANP GRK: καὶ ἡγοῦμαι σκύβαλα ἵνα Χριστὸν NAS: and count them but rubbish so KJV: them [but] dung, that INT: and esteem [them] rubbish that Christ Strong's Greek 4657 1 Occurrence σκύβαλα — 1 Occ.