Skotizo means “darken” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4654 — mappalah (“something fallen”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4654 σκοτίζω (skotizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. skotizo (skot-id'-zo) v. 1. to obscure {literally or figuratively} It has 15 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include darkened. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
skotizo (skot-id'-zo) v. 1. to obscure {literally or figuratively} [from G4655] KJV: darken Root(s): G4655
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4654. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to darken
Usage: σκοτίζω (σκότος), [in LXX for חָשַׁךְ ;] to darken; in NT always pass., -ομαι, to be darkened: of the heavenly bodies, Mat.24:29, Mrk.13:24, Luk.23:45 (Rec., WH, mg.), Rev.8:12. Metaphorical, of the mind, Rom.1:21 11:10" (LXX) (cf. σκοτόω).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render skotizo, 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, Septuagint / Greek Old 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 G4654 (σκοτίζω) appears 7 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.
8 indexed usages in New Testament.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
6 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; And bow down their back continually.
Look upon thy covenant: For the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; Yet they rebelled against his words.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The planks of the deck above them barred out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4654.
Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; And bow down their back continually.
Look upon thy covenant: For the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; Yet they rebelled against his words.
For darkness will not be darkness with thee; But night will be light as day: As its darkness, so shall its light be to thee.
While the sun and light are not darkened, Nor the moon and the stars; Nor the clouds return after the rain:
For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
The planks of the deck above them barred out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4654, grouped by book.
Skotizo (Strong's G4654) is a Greek word most simply glossed "darken". skotizo (skot-id'-zo) v. 1. to obscure {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's G4654 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4654 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 darkened. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 6 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4654, with linked reader references where each row is available.