Skotia means “dimness” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4653 — miphlaggah (“division”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4653 σκοτία (skotia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. skotia (skot-ee'-ah) n. 1. dimness, obscurity {literally or figuratively} It has 15 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include dark. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
skotia (skot-ee'-ah) n. 1. dimness, obscurity {literally or figuratively} [from G4655] KJV: dark(-ness) Root(s): G4655
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4653. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
darkness
Usage: σκοτία, -ας, ἡ [in LXX: Job.28:3 (אֹפֶל), Mic.3:6 (חָשַׁךְ), Isa.16:3 * ;] in late writers = σκότος, darkness: Jhn.6:17 20:1. Metaphorical, __(a) of secrecy (opposite to ἐν τ. φωτί): Mat.10:27, Luk.12:3; __(b) of spiritual darkness: Mat.4:16, Jhn.1:5 8:12 12:35, 40, 1Jn.1:5 Jn 2:8-9 Jn 2:11.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render skotia, 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 New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G4653 (σκοτία) appears 3 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.
12 indexed usages in New Testament.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
He has set a bound to darkness, And he searches out every limit: A stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.
take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at midday; they are amazed; be not thou led captive.
therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4653.
He has set a bound to darkness, And he searches out every limit: A stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.
take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at midday; they are amazed; be not thou led captive.
therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4653, grouped by book.
Skotia (Strong's G4653) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dimness". skotia (skot-ee'-ah) n. 1. dimness, obscurity {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's G4653 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4653 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dark. 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 for Strong's G4653, with linked reader references where each row is available.