Word meanings
Short definition
[in LXX chiefly for צֵל, 4Ki.20:9 ff., Psa.57:1, al.; but σ. and σ. θανάτου are also used for צַלְמָוֶת, Job.3:5, Psa.3:4, Isa.9:2 (1) (see ICC, in l), al. ;]
1. shadow, shade, caused by interception of light: Mrk.4:32, Act.5:15; metaphorically, σ. θανάτου, of ignorance and error, Mat.4:16, Luk.1:79" (LXX) .
2. a shadow, the image or outline cast by an object: figuratively, ὑπόδειγμα καὶ σ., Heb.8:5; opposite to σῶμα, Col.2:17; opposite to εἰκών, Heb.10:1.†
(AS)
Strong's dictionary
apparently a primary word; "shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively (darkness of error or an adumbration)):-- shadow.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Liddell-Scott-Jones)
Ionic dialect σκῐή, ῆς, ἡ, shadow, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; σκιὰ ἀντίστοιχος ὥς like the shadow that is one's double, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2 reflection, image (in a bowl of oil), [Refs 8th c.BC+]
3 shade of one dead, phantom, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; κατθανὼν δὲ πᾶς ἀνὴρ γῆ καὶ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, of one worn to a shadow, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; κακωθεὶς δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἄλλ᾽ εἰμ᾽ ἢ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently in proverbs of man's mortal estate, σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν εἴδωλα.. ἢ κούφην σ. [Refs]; of human affairs, εὐτυχοῦντα μὲν σκιᾷ τις ἂν πρέψειεν [Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἢ καπνοῦ σ. [Refs]; of worthless things, τἄλλ᾽ ἐγὼ καπνοῦ σκιᾶς οὐκ ἂν πριαίμην [Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ ὄνου σκιᾶς [μάχεσθαι] [Refs 5th c.BC+] wrote a Comedy texts entitled Ὄνου σκι; ἡ ἐν Δελφοῖς σ. that phantom at Delphi, of the Amphictyonic council, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ τοῦ δικαίου σ. mere shadows of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκιαὶ τῶν ὄντων, ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ εἰδώλων σ[Refs 4th c.BC+]
4 evil spirit, [Refs 6th c.AD+]
II shade of trees, etc., as a protection from heat, πετραίη τε σκιή the shade of a rock, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν σκιῇ ἑζόμενος[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν σκιᾷ, i.e. indoors, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκιὰν ὑπερτείνασα Σειρίου κυνός shade from its heat, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III shadow in painting, τὰ λαμπρὰ τῇ σκιᾷ τρανότερα ποιοῦσι [Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἀνθρώπων πρῶτος ἐξευρὼν φθορὰν καὶ ἀπόχρωσιν σκιᾶς, of the painter Apollodorus, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
III.2 silhouette, profile, Διόδωρος σ. Ἀντιφίλου ἐποίησεν [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
III.3 perhaps coloured border on a garment, καλάσηριν ἢ ὑπόδυμα μὴ ἔχον σκιάς [Refs 4th c.BC+]
IV an uninvited guest, introduced by another (Latin umbra), [Refs 1st c.AD+]. (Cf. Sanskrit chāyā´ 'shadow'.)
Every occurrence
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Matthew 4:16 σκιᾷ skia · A person, place or thing: to or for
the people that sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, to them did light spring up.
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Mark 4:32 σκιὰν skian · A person, place or thing: receives the action
yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof.
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Luke 1:79 σκιᾷ skia · A person, place or thing: to or for
To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.
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Acts 5:15 σκιὰ skia · A person, place or thing: does the action
insomuch that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that, as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some one of them.
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Colossians 2:17 σκιὰ skia · A person, place or thing: does the action
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
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Hebrews 8:5 σκιᾷ skia · A person, place or thing: to or for
who serve that which is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned of God when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.
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Hebrews 10:1 Σκιὰν Skian · A person, place or thing: receives the action
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
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