Strong's Lexicon
G4694 — σπιλάς
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4694 |
|---|---|
| Word: | σπιλάς |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | of uncertain derivation |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | spilas |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | spee-las' |
| Meaning: | 1. a ledge or reef of rock in the sea |
| KJV Renderings: | spot (by confusion with G4696) |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σπιλάς, σπιλαδος, ἡ, a rock in the sea, ledge or reef (Homer, Odyssey 3, 298; 5, 401, and in other poets; Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, b. j. 3, 9, 3); plural, tropically, of men who by their conduct damage others morally, wreck them as it were, equivalent to σκάνδαλα (R. V. text hidden rocks), Jud 1:12 (here L T Tr WH read οἱ (namely, ὄντες) σπιλάδες. Some (so R. V. marginal reading) make the word equivalent to the following; see Rutherford as there referred to.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
σπιλάς (spot (by confusion with )
Jude 1:12
- KJV: These are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear clouds without water carried about of winds trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots
- GK: ούτοί εισιν εν ταις αγάπαις υμών σπιλάδες συνευωχούμενοι υμίν αφόβως εαυτούς ποιμαίνοντες νεφέλαι άνυδροι υπό ανέμων παραφερόμεναι δένδρα φθινοπώρινα άκαρπα δις αποθανόντα εκριζωθέντα
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