σκοπός
observer
‘observer’ is one of 2 main senses 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4649 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Philippians 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.
σκοπος — transliterated skopós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “observer.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Philippians (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is Philippians 3:14. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4649 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Philippians 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Mark 1×
- American Standard Version: Goal 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Goal 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Goal 1×
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4649 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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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.
- an observer, a watchman
- the distant mark looked at, the goal or end one has in view
Word origin
Derived from σκαπτω (skáptō) (G4626) — to dig.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4649, 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
Derived from this word
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σκοπος appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 21 verses in 11 books.
- 24
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 21
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 26:1 σκοπός
- 1 Samuel 14:16 σκοπός
- 2 Samuel 13:34 σκοπός
- 2 Kings 9:17 σκοπός
- Job 16:12 σκοπός
- Isaiah 21:6 σκοπός
- Jeremiah 6:17 σκοπός
- Lamentations 3:12 σκοπός
- Ezekiel 3:17 σκοπός
- Hosea 9:8 σκοπός
- Nahum 3:12 σκοπός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4649) 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.
- Leviticus 26:1 σκοπός "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.
- 1 Samuel 14:16 σκοπός The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went [here] and there.
- 2 Samuel 13:34 σκοπός But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill-side behind him.
- 2 Samuel 18:24 σκοπός Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
- 2 Samuel 18:25 σκοπός The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace, and drew near.
- 2 Samuel 18:26 σκοπός The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, Behold, [another] man running alone. The king said, He also brings news.
- 2 Samuel 18:27 σκοπός The watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. The king said, He is a good man, and comes with good news.
- 2 Kings 9:17 σκοπός Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
- 2 Kings 9:18 σκοπός So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says the king, Is it peace? Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me. The watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he isn't coming back.
- 2 Kings 9:20 σκοπός The watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and isn't coming back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously.
- Job 16:12 σκοπός I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
- Isaiah 21:6 σκοπός For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he sees:
- Jeremiah 6:17 σκοπός I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen.
- Lamentations 3:12 σκοπός He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Ezekiel 3:17 σκοπός Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
- Ezekiel 33:2 σκοπός Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
- Ezekiel 33:6 σκοπός But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
- Ezekiel 33:7 σκοπός So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
- Hosea 9:8 σκοπός 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.
- Hosea 9:10 σκοπός I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; But they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, And became abominable like that which they loved.
- Nahum 3:12 σκοπός All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4649) 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.
