σκολιός
crooked
‘crooked’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Genitive-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G4646 appears in the Nominative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek adjective σκολιος centers on the idea of “crooked.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Luke (25%), then Acts and Philippians. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 3:5. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4646 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 25%
- Acts 1 verse 25%
- Philippians 1 verse 25%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 50%
- Gospels 1 verse · 25%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 25%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Crooked 2×
- American Standard Version: Crooked 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Crooked 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Crooked 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4646 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4646 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4646 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4646 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- crooked, curved
- metaph.
Word origin
Derived from σκελος (skélos) (G4628) — leg.
From the base of G4628 ; warped that is winding ; figuratively perverse : - crooked froward untoward.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4646 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σκολιᾶς skoliâs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 2:40 | 2 |
| σκολιοῖς skolioîs | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Peter 2:18 | 1 |
| σκολιὰ skolià | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Luke 3:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4646, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σκολιος appears 19 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 6 books.
- 19
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 32:5 σκολιός
- Job 4:18 σκολιός
- Psalms 77:8 σκολιός
- Proverbs 2:15 σκολιός
- Isaiah 27:1 σκολιός
- Hosea 9:8 σκολιός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4646) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 32:5 σκολιός They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
- Job 4:18 σκολιός Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
- Job 9:20 σκολιός Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
- Psalms 77:8 σκολιός Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
- Proverbs 2:15 σκολιός Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
- Proverbs 4:24 σκολιός Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
- Proverbs 8:8 σκολιός All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
- Proverbs 16:22 σκολιός Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, But the punishment of fools is their folly.
- Proverbs 16:24 σκολιός Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Proverbs 21:8 σκολιός The way of the guilty is devious, But the conduct of the innocent is upright.
- Proverbs 22:5 σκολιός Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: Whoever guards his soul stays from them.
- Proverbs 22:14 σκολιός The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: He who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
- Proverbs 23:33 σκολιός Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.
- Proverbs 28:18 σκολιός Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; But one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
- Isaiah 27:1 σκολιός In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
- Isaiah 40:4 σκολιός Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:
- Isaiah 42:16 σκολιός I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
- Hosea 9:8 σκολιός A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, And hostility in the house of his God.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4646) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
