Lexicon Skuthés: a Scythian, an inhabitant of Scythia (considered the wildest of barbarians) Original Word: Σκύθης, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Skuthés Phonetic Spelling: (skoo'-thace) Short Definition: a Scythian Definition: a Scythian, as typical of the uncivilized. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definitiona Scythian, an inhab. of Scythia (considered the wildest of barbarians) NASB TranslationScythian (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4658: ΣκύθηςΣκύθης, Σκυθου, ὁ, a Scythian, an inhabitant of Scythia i. e. modern Russia: Colossians 3:11. By the more civilized nations of antiquity the Scythians were regarded as the wildest of all barbarians; cf. Cicero, in Verr. 2, 5, 58 § 150; in Pison. 8, 18; Josephus, c. Apion. 2, 37, 6; ( Philo, leg. ad Gaium § 2); Lucian, Tox. 5f; 2 Macc. 4:47; 3Macc. 7:5. (See Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited; Hackett in B. D. under the word ; Rawlinson's Herod., Appendix to book iv., Essays ii. and iii.; Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word.)
Strong's Scythian. Probably of foreign origin; a Scythene or Scythian, i.e. (by implication) a savage -- Scythian. |
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