Word Summary
skoteinos: dark
Original Word: σκοτεινόςTransliteration: skoteinos
Phonetic Spelling: (skot-i-nos')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: dark
Meaning: dark
Strong's Concordance
dark, full of darkness.
From skotos; opaque, i.e. (figuratively) benighted -- dark, full of darkness.
see GREEK skotos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4652: σκοτεινόςσκοτεινός (
WH σκοτινος; see Iota),
σκοτεινή,
σκοτεινόν (
σκότος),
full of darkness, covered with darkness (from
Aeschylus down): opposed to
φωτεινός,
Matthew 6:23;
Luke 11:34, 36 (
τά σκοτεινά καί τά φωτεινα,
Xenophon, mem. 3, 10, 1; (cf. 4, 3, 4)).