σκοπέω
to look at
also: observe, contemplate fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4648 appears — 6 distinct verses across 5 books. 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
Romans 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
Philippians 2 verses
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.
At its core, σκοπεω (skopéō) means “to look at.” Not a single-sense word, it carries 4 senses, among them “observe” and “contemplate”. It appears 6 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Philippians (33%), then Luke and Romans. First canonically at Luke 11:35, it enters the text early. Dig into 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4648 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Philippians 2 verses 33%
- Luke 1 verse 17%
- Romans 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 83%
- Gospels 1 verse · 17%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 17%
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: Look 2×, Mark 2×
- American Standard Version: Look 2×, Looking 2×, Mark 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be careful 1×, Carefully observe 1×, Fix our eyes 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Considering 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4648 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G4648 across 7 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 G4648 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4648 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 4 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.
- to look at, observe, contemplate
- to mark
- to fix one's eyes upon, direct one's attention to, any one
- to look to, take heed to thyself
Word origin
Derived from σκοπος (skopós) (G4649) — observer.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G4648 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σκοπεῖν skopeîn | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Romans 16:17 | 1 |
| σκοπεῖτε skopeîte | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Philippians 3:17 | 1 |
| σκοπούντων skopoúntōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 4:18 | 1 |
| σκοποῦντες skopoûntes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Philippians 2:4 | 1 |
| σκοπῶν skopō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Galatians 6:1 | 1 |
| σκόπει skópei | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Luke 11:35 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4648, 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.
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Shares the same root
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