Word Summary
spilos: a spot, stain
Original Word: σπῖλοςTransliteration: spilos
Phonetic Spelling: (spee'-los)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a spot, stain
Meaning: a spot, stain
Strong's Concordance
spot.
Of uncertain derivation; a stain or blemish, i.e. (figuratively) defect, disgrace -- spot.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4696: σπίλοςσπίλος (
WH σπίλος (so Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 87; Liddell and Scott, under the word); but see
Tdf. Proleg., p. 102;
Lipsius, Gram. Untersuch., p. 42),
σπιλου,
ὁ (Phryn. rejects this word in favor of the Attic
κηλίς; but
σπίλος is used by Joseph,
Dionysius Halicarnassus,
Plutarch,
Lucian,
Liban, Artemidor.; see
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 28 (cf.
Winers Grammar, 25)),
a spot: tropically,
a fault, moral blemish,
Ephesians 5:27; plural of base and gluttonous men,
2 Peter 2:13.