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σκοτία

Strong’s: G4653

Associated OET lemmas: σκοτία

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: σκοτία; -ας

Related lemmas: σκοτίζομαι

Sense 1: darkness

Semantic entry: 14.53

Semantic domains: Physical Events and States

Subdomains: Darkness

Definition: a condition resulting from the partial or complete absence of light (see 14.36: φέγγος / 14.36: φῶς)

Notes: In a number of languages it is impossible to speak of ‘darkness’ as being an agent in the sense of RV LUK 23:44 · LV LUK 23:44 · Read together LUK 23:44 ‘darkness covered the whole country.’ Accordingly, one must say ‘throughout the whole country it was dark’ or ‘it darkened over the whole country.’ In some languages darkness may be characterized as being a quality of the night, for example, ‘it was like night.’

Collocations: ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ

MAT 10:27: RV MAT 10:27 · LV MAT 10:27 · Read together MAT 10:27

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OET-RV MAT 10:27

27 Whatever I tell you apprentices in the darkness, speak it out in the light, and what you hear whispered, go and yell it out from up on the top porch.

OET-LV MAT 10:27

27 What I _am _telling to _you _all in the darkness, speak in the light, and what you _all _are _hearing in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

LUK 12:3: RV LUK 12:3 · LV LUK 12:3 · Read together LUK 12:3

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OET-RV LUK 12:3

3 Anything that you whispered in the dark will be heard in the light, and anything that was only for certain ears in a private room will be announced from the rooftops.

OET-LV LUK 12:3

3 Instead _of that as _much _as you _all _said in the darkness, will _be _being _heard in the light, and what you _all _spoke to the ear in the private _rooms, will _be _being _proclaimed on the housetops.

All 6 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 10:27 · LV MAT 10:27 · Read together MAT 10:27

LUK: RV LUK 12:3 · LV LUK 12:3 · Read together LUK 12:3

JHN: RV JHN 6:17 · RV JHN 12:35 · RV JHN 20:1 · LV JHN 6:17 · LV JHN 12:35 · LV JHN 20:1 · Read together JHN 6:17 · Read together JHN 12:35 · Read together JHN 20:1

JN1: RV JN1 1:5 · LV JN1 1:5 · Read together JN1 1:5

Sense 2: evil world, realm of evil, darkness

Semantic entry: 88.125

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Bad, Evil, Harmful, Damaging

Definition: (figurative extension of meaning σκοτία[a] ‘darkness,’ 14.53: γνόφος / 14.53: σκοτία / 14.53: σκότος) the realm of sin and evil

JHN 1:5: RV JHN 1:5 · LV JHN 1:5 · Read together JHN 1:5

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OET-RV JHN 1:5

5 And that light is shining in the darkness, and darkness cannot overcome him.

OET-LV JHN 1:5

5 And the light is _shining in the darkness, and it not grasped the darkness.

JHN 8:12: RV JHN 8:12 · LV JHN 8:12 · Read together JHN 8:12

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OET-RV JHN 8:12

12 Because of this, Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) told them, “I am the light for the world—anyone who follows me won’t walk in the darkness but will have the light that gives life.”

OET-LV JHN 8:12

12 Therefore the Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) spoke to _them again saying:
I am the light of _the world, the one following after _me by _no _means may_ not _walk in the darkness, but will _be _having the light of_ the _life.

All 8 recorded passages for this sense

JHN: RV JHN 1:5 · RV JHN 8:12 · RV JHN 12:35 · RV JHN 12:46 · LV JHN 1:5 · LV JHN 8:12 · LV JHN 12:35 · LV JHN 12:46 · Read together JHN 1:5 · Read together JHN 8:12 · Read together JHN 12:35 · Read together JHN 12:46

JN1: RV JN1 1:5 · RV JN1 2:8–9 · RV JN1 2:11 · LV JN1 1:5 · LV JN1 2:8–9 · LV JN1 2:11 · Read together JN1 1:5 · Read together JN1 2:8–9 · Read together JN1 2:11

Sense 3: in secret, in private, secretly, privately

Semantic entry: 28.71

Semantic domains: Know

Subdomains: Not Able To Be Known, Secret

Definition: pertaining to not being able to be known by the public but known by some in-group or by those immediately involved

MAT 10:27: RV MAT 10:27 · LV MAT 10:27 · Read together MAT 10:27

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OET-RV MAT 10:27

27 Whatever I tell you apprentices in the darkness, speak it out in the light, and what you hear whispered, go and yell it out from up on the top porch.

OET-LV MAT 10:27

27 What I _am _telling to _you _all in the darkness, speak in the light, and what you _all _are _hearing in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

LUK 12:3: RV LUK 12:3 · LV LUK 12:3 · Read together LUK 12:3

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OET-RV LUK 12:3

3 Anything that you whispered in the dark will be heard in the light, and anything that was only for certain ears in a private room will be announced from the rooftops.

OET-LV LUK 12:3

3 Instead _of that as _much _as you _all _said in the darkness, will _be _being _heard in the light, and what you _all _spoke to the ear in the private _rooms, will _be _being _proclaimed on the housetops.