σκώληξ
worm
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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4663 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.
Mark 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 noun σκωληξ centers on the idea of “worm.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Mark dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Mark 9:48. Sharing its root, it stands alongside σκωληκοβρωτος. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4663 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
- Mark 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.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
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: Worm 3×
- American Standard Version: Worm 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Worm 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Worm 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4663 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4663 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4663 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4663 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- a worm, spec. that kind which preys upon dead bodies
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Of uncertain derivative; a grub maggot or earth worm : - worm.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4663, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σκωληξ appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 7 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 16:20 σκώληξ
- Deuteronomy 28:39 σκώληξ
- Job 2:9 σκώληξ
- Psalms 21:7 σκώληξ
- Proverbs 12:4 σκώληξ
- Isaiah 14:11 σκώληξ
- Jonah 4:7 σκώληξ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4663) 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.
- Exodus 16:20 σκώληξ Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.
- Exodus 16:24 σκώληξ They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
- Deuteronomy 28:39 σκώληξ You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.
- Job 2:9 σκώληξ Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."
- Job 7:5 σκώληξ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
- Job 25:6 σκώληξ How much less man, who is a worm! The son of man, who is a worm!"
- Psalms 21:7 σκώληξ For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
- Proverbs 12:4 σκώληξ A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, But a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
- Proverbs 25:20 σκώληξ As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, Or vinegar on soda, So is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
- Isaiah 14:11 σκώληξ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and worms cover you.
- Isaiah 66:24 σκώληξ They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
- Jonah 4:7 σκώληξ But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4663) 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.
