Lexical Summary skorpios: a scorpion Original Word: σκορπίοςTransliteration: skorpios Phonetic Spelling: (skor-pee'-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a scorpion Meaning: a scorpion Strong's Concordance scorpion. Probably from an obsolete skerpo (perhaps strengthened from the base of skopos and meaning to pierce); a "scorpion" (from its sting) -- scorpion. see GREEK skopos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4651: σκορπίοςσκορπίος, σκορπίου, ὁ ((for the derivation see the preceding word); from Aeschylus down; on its accent, cf. Chandler § 246), a scorpion, the Sept. for עַקְרָב, the name of a little animal, somewhat resembling a lobster, which in warm regions lurks especially in stone walls; it has a poisonous sting in its tail (McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia and BB. DD., |
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