Lexical Summary spilas: a ledge of rock (over which the sea dashes), a reef Original Word: σπιλάςTransliteration: spilas Phonetic Spelling: (spee-las') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a ledge of rock (over which the sea dashes), a reef Meaning: a ledge of rock (over which the sea dashes), a reef Strong's Concordance spot Of uncertain derivation; a ledge or reef of rock in the sea -- spot (by confusion with spilos). see GREEK spilos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4694: σπιλάςσπιλάς, 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), Jude 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.) |
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