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Strong's G4639 σκιά (skia)

Skia means “shadow” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4639 — maaseh (“act”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4639
Language Greek
Linked Usages 54
Books 22

Strong's G4639 Quick Answer

Strong's G4639 σκία (skia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. skia (skee'-ah) n. 1. "shade" or a shadow (darkness of error or an adumbration) {literally or figuratively} It has 54 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include shadow. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
skia (skee'-ah) n. 1. "shade" or a shadow (darkness of error or an adumbration) {literally or figuratively}
Usage
54 linked usages
Books
22 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
shadow

Meaning and Definition

skia (skee'-ah) n. 1. "shade" or a shadow (darkness of error or an adumbration) {literally or figuratively} [apparently a primary word] KJV: shadow

Original Word
σκία
Transliteration
skia
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4639. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

shadow

Usage: σκιά, -ᾶς, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for צֵל, 4Ki.20:9 ff., Psa.57:1, al.; but σ. and σ. θανάτου are also used for צַלְמָוֶת, Job.3:5, Psa.3:4, Isa.9:2 (1) (see ICC, in l), al. ;] __1. shadow, shade, caused by interception of light: Mrk.4:32, Act.5:15; metaphorically, σ. θανάτου, of ignorance and error, Mat.4:16, Luk.1:79" (LXX) . __2. a shadow, the image or outline cast by an object: figuratively, ὑπόδειγμα καὶ σ., Heb.8:5; opposite to σῶμα, Col.2:17; opposite to εἰκών, Heb.10:1.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4639 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render skia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

shadow Matthew 4:16

How Strong's G4639 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 43 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4639 (σκία) appears 52 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4639 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4639 in the New Testament

7 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 4:16 KJV

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Mark 4:32 KJV

But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

Luke 1:79 KJV

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Strong's G4639 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

43 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Judges 9:15 Septuagint / Brenton

And the bramble said to the trees, If ye in truth anoint me to reign over you, come, stand under my shadow; and if not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

Judges 9:36 Septuagint / Brenton

And Gaal the son of Ebed saw the people, and said to Zebul, Behold, a people comes down from the top of the mountains: and Zebul said to him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as men.

4 Kingdoms 20:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And Isaiah said, This is the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will perform the word which he has spoken, the shadow of the dial shall advance ten degrees: or if it should go back ten degrees this would also be the sign.

Strong's G4639 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:5 Septuagint / Brenton

For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; And after our end there is no returning: For it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.

Wisdom of Solomon 5:9 Septuagint / Brenton

All those things are passed away like a shadow, And as a post that hastened by;

Wisdom of Sirach 34:2 Septuagint / Brenton

Watching care will not let a man slumber, As a sore disease breaketh sleep.

Usage Excerpts

First 54 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4639.

Judges 9:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the bramble said to the trees, If ye in truth anoint me to reign over you, come, stand under my shadow; and if not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges 9:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Gaal the son of Ebed saw the people, and said to Zebul, Behold, a people comes down from the top of the mountains: and Zebul said to him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as men.
4 Kingdoms 20:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Isaiah said, This is the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will perform the word which he has spoken, the shadow of the dial shall advance ten degrees: or if it should go back ten degrees this would also be the sign.
4 Kingdoms 20:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hezekiah said, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return ten degrees backward on the dial.
4 Kingdoms 20:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Isaiah the prophet cried to the Lord: and the shadow returned back ten degrees on the dial.
1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Job 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; Let blackness come upon it;
Job 7:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? Or as a hireling waiting for his pay?
Job 8:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
(For we are of yesterday, and know nothing; For our life upon the earth is a shadow):
Job 12:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Revealing deep things out of darkness: And he has brought into light the shadow of death.
Job 14:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; And he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.
Job 15:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: He shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
Job 16:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My belly has been parched with wailing, And darkness is on my eyelids.
Job 24:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, For each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.
Job 28:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has set a bound to darkness, And he searches out every limit: A stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.
Psalms 22:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yea, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of evils: for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, these have comforted me.
Psalms 43:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou hast laid us low in a place of affliction, And the shadow of death has covered us.
Psalms 56:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Have mercy, upon me, O God, have mercy upon me: For my soul has trusted in thee: And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, Until the iniquity have passed away.
Psalms 79:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Its shadow covered the mountains, And its shoots equaled the goodly cedars.
Psalms 87:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, and in the shadow of death.
Psalms 101:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My days have declined like a shadow; And I am withered like grass.
Psalms 106:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, Fettered in poverty and iron;
Psalms 106:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their bonds asunder.
Psalms 108:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.
Psalms 143:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Man is like to vanity: His days pass as a shadow.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What advantage has a man? For who knows what is good for a man in his life, During the number of the life of the days of his vanity? And he has spent them as a shadow; For who shall tell a man What shall be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver: And the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom Will give life to him that has it.
Ecclesiastes 8:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But it shall not be well with the ungodly, And he shall not prolong his days, which are as a shadow; Forasmuch as he fears not before God.
Song of Solomon 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As the apple among the trees of the wood, So is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, And his fruit was sweet in my throat.
Song of Solomon 2:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, Turn, my kinsman, Be thou like to a roe or young hart On the mountains of the ravines.
Song of Solomon 4:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense.
Isaiah 4:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency of weather and from rain.
Isaiah 9:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.
Isaiah 38:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees of the dial by which ten degrees on the house of thy father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.
Isaiah 51:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will put my words into thy mouth, and I will shelter thee under the shadow of my hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and the Lord shall say to Zion, Thou art my people.
Jeremiah 6:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.
Jeremiah 13:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.
Lamentations 4:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, Was taken in their destructive snares, Of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.
Ezekiel 17:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored.
Ezekiel 31:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations dwelt under his shadow.
Amos 5:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:
Jonah 4:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jonah went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.
Jonah 4:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonah, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonah rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.
Matthew 4:16 New Testament, KJV
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Mark 4:32 New Testament, KJV
But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Luke 1:79 New Testament, KJV
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Acts 5:15 New Testament, KJV
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Colossians 2:17 New Testament, KJV
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Hebrews 8:5 New Testament, KJV
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Hebrews 10:1 New Testament, KJV
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; And after our end there is no returning: For it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.
Wisdom of Solomon 5:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
All those things are passed away like a shadow, And as a post that hastened by;
Wisdom of Sirach 34:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Watching care will not let a man slumber, As a sore disease breaketh sleep.
Baruch 1:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Belshazzar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favor in their sight.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4639, grouped by book.

Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4639 FAQ

What does skia (σκιά) mean?

Skia (Strong's G4639) is a Greek word most simply glossed "shadow". skia (skee'-ah) n. 1. "shade" or a shadow (darkness of error or an adumbration) {literally or figuratively}

How many times is skia (σκιά) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 54 linked usages for Strong's G4639 across 22 books.

Where can I study skia (σκιά) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4639 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate skia (σκιά)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as shadow. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4639 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 43 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4639, with linked reader references where each row is available.