Word Summary
skylon: arms stripped from a foe, spoils
Original Word: σκῦλονTransliteration: skylon
Phonetic Spelling: (skoo'-lon)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: arms stripped from a foe, spoils
Meaning: arms stripped from a foe, spoils
Strong's Concordance
spoil.
Neuter from skullo; something stripped (as a hide), i.e. Booty -- spoil.
see GREEK skullo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4661: σκῦλονσκῦλον (
Rbez G L T WH) also
σκῦλον ((so
Rst elz Tr) cf.
Lipsius, Gram. Untersuch., p. 44),
σκυλου,
τό (from the obsolete
σκύω, 'to pull off', allied to
ξύω,
ξύλον (but cf.
Curtius, § 113;
Vanicek, p. 1115));
a. a (beast's) skin stripped off, a pelt.
b. the arms stripped off from an enemy, spoils: plural Luke 11:22. (Sophocles, Thucydides, and following; the Sept..)