Skolios means “warped” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4646 — mappach (“giving up”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4646 σκολιός (skolios) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. skolios (skol-ee-os') adj. 1. warped, i.e. winding 2. (figuratively) perverse It has 25 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include crooked, untoward, perverse, and froward. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
skolios (skol-ee-os') adj. 1. warped, i.e. winding 2. (figuratively) perverse [from the base of G4628] KJV: crooked, froward, untoward Root(s): G4628
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4646. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
crooked
Usage: σκολιός, -ά, -όν [in LXX: Deu.32:5 (עִקֵּשׁ), Pro.28:18 (σ. ὁδοῖς πορεύεσθαι, for: דֶּרֶךְ עָקַשׁ), Isa.40:4 (עָקֹב), etc. ;] curved, bent, winding (opposite to ὀρθός, εὐθύς): Luk.3:5 (LXX). Metaphorical, crooked, perverse, unjust: Act.2:40, Php.2:15, 1Pe.2:18.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render skolios, 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.
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.
Strong's G4646 (σκολιός) appears 22 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
18 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
They have sinned, not pleasing him; spotted children, A froward and perverse generation.
Whereas he trusts not in his servants, And perceives perverseness in his angels.
For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: And though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For froward thoughts separate from God: And his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise.
And taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, Being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, Hath carved it diligently when he had nothing else to do, And formed it by the skill of his understanding, And fashioned it to the image of a man;
For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these, And they perished with the stings of crooked serpents, Thy wrath endured not forever:
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4646.
They have sinned, not pleasing him; spotted children, A froward and perverse generation.
Whereas he trusts not in his servants, And perceives perverseness in his angels.
For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: And though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
That they should not be as their fathers, A perverse and provoking generation; A generation which set not its heart aright, And its spirit was not steadfast with God.
Whose paths are crooked, And their courses winding;
Remove from thee a froward mouth, And put far away from thee unjust lips.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing in them wrong or perverse.
A man who labors, labors for himself, and drives from him his own ruin.
A perverse man spreads mischief, And will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.
To the froward God sends froward ways; For his works are pure and right.
Thistles and snares are in perverse ways; But he that keeps his soul will refrain from them.
And he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. And he does not like to turn away from them; But it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.
Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, Then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.
In that day God shall bring his holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.
The watchman of Ephraim was with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
For froward thoughts separate from God: And his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise.
And taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, Being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, Hath carved it diligently when he had nothing else to do, And formed it by the skill of his understanding, And fashioned it to the image of a man;
For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these, And they perished with the stings of crooked serpents, Thy wrath endured not forever:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4646, grouped by book.
Skolios (Strong's G4646) is a Greek word most simply glossed "warped". skolios (skol-ee-os') adj. 1. warped, i.e. winding 2. (figuratively) perverse
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's G4646 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4646 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as crooked, untoward, perverse, and froward. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 18 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4646, with linked reader references where each row is available.