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Lexicon :: Strong's G4649 - skopos

Aa
σκοπός
Transliteration
skopos (Key)
Pronunciation
skop-os'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From skeptomai (to peer about ["skeptic"], perhaps akin to σκάπτω (G4626) through the idea of concealment, cf σκέπασμα (G4629))
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:413,1047

Strong’s Definitions

σκοπός skopós, skop-os'; from σκέπτομαι sképtomai (to peer about ("skeptic"); perhaps akin to G4626 through the idea of concealment; compare G4629); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by implication) a goal:—mark.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G4649 in the following manner: mark (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G4649 in the following manner: mark (1x).

  1. an observer, a watchman

  2. the distant mark looked at, the goal or end one has in view

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σκοπός skopós, skop-os'; from σκέπτομαι sképtomai (to peer about ("skeptic"); perhaps akin to G4626 through the idea of concealment; compare G4629); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by implication) a goal:—mark.
STRONGS G4649:
σκοπός, σκοποῦ, ὁ ((from a root denoting 'to spy,' 'peer,' 'look into the distance'; cf. also Latinspecio, speculum, species, etc.; Fick i., 251f; iv., 279; Curtius, § 111)); from Homer down;
1. an observer, a watchman.
2. the distant mark looked at, the goal or end one has in view: κατά σκοπόν (on this phrase see κατά, II. 1 c.), Philippians 3:14.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Philippians
3:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4649 matches the Greek σκοπός (skopos),
which occurs 24 times in 21 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1 - Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:16 - And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went hither and thither.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill-side behind him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25 - And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26 - And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold, another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - And the watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not back.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20 - And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 -
I was at ease, and he brake me asunder;
Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces:
He hath also set me up for his mark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6 - For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:17 - And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12 -
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2 - Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, and the sword come, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:7 - So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:8 - Ephraim was a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler’s snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12 - All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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