STRONGS NUMBER G4649


Word Summary
skopos: a watchman, a mark (on which to fix the eye)
Original Word: σκοπός
Transliteration: skopos
Phonetic Spelling: (skop-os')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a watchman, a mark (on which to fix the eye)
Meaning: a watchman, a mark (on which to fix the eye)
Strong's Concordance
goal, mark.

From skeptomai (to peer about ("skeptic"); perhaps akin to skapto through the idea of concealment; compare skepasma); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by implication) a goal -- mark.

see GREEK skapto

see GREEK skepasma

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4649: σκοπός

σκοπός, σκοποῦ, ((from a root denoting 'to spy,' 'peer,' 'look into the distance'; cf. also Latinspecio, speculum, species, etc.; Fick i., 251f; iv., 279; Curtius, § 111)); from Homer down;

1. an observer, a watchman.

2. the distant mark looked at, the goal or end one has in view: κατά σκοπόν (on this phrase see κατά, II. 1 c.), Philippians 3:14.