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Strong's G4632 · Greek

σκεῦος

skeuos · skyoo'-os

of uncertain affinity; a vessel, implement, equipment or apparatus (literally or figuratively (specially, a wife as contributing to the usefulness of the husband))


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

σκεῦος (G4632)

23 σκεῦος , -ους, τό [in LXX chiefly for כְּלִי ;] a vessel, implement (for exx. in various senses, v. MM, xxii): Mk 11:16 , Lk 8:16 , Jo 19:29 , Ac 10:11 , 16 11:5 , Ro 9:21 , Re 18:12 ; pl., II Ti 2:20 , Re 2:27 ; τὰ σ. τῆς λειτουργίας , He 9:21 ; pl., τὰ σ. , utensils, goods , Mt 12:29 , Mk 3:27 , Lk 17:31 ; id. of the tackle or gear of a ship (Xen., Polyb., al.); so in sing., τὸ σ. , Ac 27:17 . Metaph., of persons: σ. ἐκλογῆς , Ac 9:15 ; ὀργῆς , Ro 9:22 ; ἐλέους , ib. 23 ; σ. εἰς τιμήν (cf. Ro 9:21 ), II Ti 2:21 ; of woman, ἀσθενέστερον σ. , I Pe 3:7 ; so perh. τ. ἑαυτοῦ σ. , I Th 4:4 (but v. infr.); of the body, II Co 4:7 ; so perh. I Th 4:4 (but v. supr., and v.s. κτάομαι ).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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