Mark 15:33:5Mark.15.33.W5TAB
σκότος
skotos
“darkness”
- Transliteration
- SKO-tos
- Extended
- SKOH-tohs
- IPA
- /ˈsko.tos/
Meaning by language
- English
- darkness
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Alphabet Analysis
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
SKO-tos
- sentence
kai ge-no-ME-nês HŌ-ras HEK-tês SKO-tos e-GE-ne-to eph HO-lên tên gên HE-ōs HŌ-ras e-NA-tês
Exegesis
The main clause skotos egeneto {σκότος ἐγένετο | skó-tos e-gé-ne-to} presents a simple subject–verb structure, with skotos as the nominative subject and egeneto as an intransitive aorist middle verb indicating the sudden onset of a state: “darkness came to be.”
Root and etymology
skotossigma–kappa–omicron–tau–omicron–sigma
“darkness, gloom”
In context — Mark 15:33
And when the sixth hour had come, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
About this coordinate
Mark 15:33:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Mark 15:33, so the Greek word σκότος (skotos) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Mark.15.33.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.15.33.W5.S1) and character.