Skolops means “thorn” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4647 — mappuach (“bellows”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4647 σκόλοψ (skolops) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. skolops (skol'-ops) n. 1. a thorn, a point or prickle 2. (figuratively) a bodily annoyance or disability It has 5 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include thorn. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
skolops (skol'-ops) n. 1. a thorn, a point or prickle 2. (figuratively) a bodily annoyance or disability [perhaps from the base of G4628 and G3700] KJV: thorn Root(s): G4628, G3700
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4647. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
thorn
Usage: σκόλοψ, -οπος, ὁ [in LXX: Num.33:55 (שֵׂךְ), Hos.2:6 (8) (סִיר), Eze.28:24 (סִלּוֹן), Sir.43:19 * ;] anything pointed, esp. __1. in cl., a stake __2. In Hellenistic vernacular, a thorn (cf. LXX, ll. with): σ. τῇ σαρκί, 2Co.12:7 (cf. MM, i., xxiii; DB, iii, 700 f.; Deiss., St. Paul, 62 f.; Field, Notes, 187).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render skolops, 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 G4647 (σκόλοψ) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But if ye will not destroy the dwellers in the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that whomsoever of them ye shall leave shall be thorns in your eyes, and darts in your sides, and they shall be enemies to you on the land on which ye shall dwell;
And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonored them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The hoarfrost also as salt he poureth on the earth, And being congealed, it becometh sharp peaks.
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4647.
But if ye will not destroy the dwellers in the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that whomsoever of them ye shall leave shall be thorns in your eyes, and darts in your sides, and they shall be enemies to you on the land on which ye shall dwell;
And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonored them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
The hoarfrost also as salt he poureth on the earth, And being congealed, it becometh sharp peaks.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4647, grouped by book.
Skolops (Strong's G4647) is a Greek word most simply glossed "thorn". skolops (skol'-ops) n. 1. a thorn, a point or prickle 2. (figuratively) a bodily annoyance or disability
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G4647 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4647 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 thorn. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4647, with linked reader references where each row is available.