Original: σκοπός

Transliteration: skopós

Phonetic: skop-os'

Short Definition: Mark

- Original: σκοπός

- Transliteration: Skopos

- Phonetic: skop-os'

- Definition:

1. an observer, a watchman

2. the distant mark looked at, the goal or end one has in view

- Origin: "from skeptomai (to peer about ["skeptic"], perhaps akin to G4626 through the idea of concealment, cf G4629)"

- TDNT entry: 13:53,1

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: (scope); From σκέπτομαι skeptomai (to peer about [skeptic]; perhaps akin to G4626 through the idea of concealment; compare G4629); a watch (sentry or scout) that is (by implication) a goal: - mark.

Cognate: G2684, G2685, G4648