G4694: σπιλάς (spilás)

G4694 σπιλάς (spilás)

Greek

Quick Definition

σπιλάς, άδος, ἡ n.f. a hidden rock, false teacher

Strong's Definition

of uncertain derivation; a ledge or reef of rock in the sea

KJV Usage: spot (by confusion with 4696)

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

σπιλάς (G4694)

noun, f. | -άδος | σπιλόω

21.5 · Danger, Risk, Safe, Save · Danger

unseen danger, hidden danger (a figurative extension of meaning of σπιλάς ‘a rock or reef washed by the sea,’ not occurring in the NT) an unrecognized source of danger or peril σπιλάς in JUD 1:12 may also be understood as meaning ‘spot’ or ‘stain’ (see 79.57).

JUD 1:12

79.57 · Features of Objects · Spotted, Spotless

spot, stain that which constitutes an unwanted spot or stain upon something It is also possible that in JUD 1:12 σπιλάς means an ‘unseen danger,’ in that it may refer to a rock which is mostly or completely covered by the sea (see 21.5).

JUD 1:12

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

σπιλάς, -ados, ἡ, α rock in the sea, ledge or reef, (Hom. Od. 3, 298; 5, 401, and in other poets; Polyb., Diod., Joseph. Ὁ. j. 3, 9, 3); plur. trop. of men who by their conduct damage others morally, wreck them as it were, i. q- oxavdada, [R. V. txt. hidden rocks], Jude 12 [here LT Tr WHread οἱ (se. ὄντες) σπ. Some (so R.V. mrg.) make the word equiv. to the following; see Rutherford as there referred to.]

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

σπιλάς spilas 1x

a sharply-cleft portion of rock; in NT a flaw, stigma, Jude 12*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* σπιλάς, -άδος, ἡ

(on the gender in Ju, l.c., v. Mayor, Ju., 41),

poët. in cl., a rock or reef over which the sea dashes (Polyb., FlJ, al.). Metaph., of men whose conduct causes danger to others, Ju 12, R, txt. (but v. infr.).

In late writers = σπίλος (q.v.), a spot, stain; metaph., Ju, l.c., R, mg. (cf. Mayor, 41, but v. supr.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

σπιλάς, found in the NT only in Jude 12, is generally understood as = “rock,” “reef,” in accordance with its poetic classical

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

σπιλάς (spilas) — reef. σπῐλάς, άδος, ἡ,

__A rock over which the sea dashes (opposed to ὕφαλοι πέτραι in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλαῖς σπιλάδεσσι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλαγκταὶ σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ῥεῖθρον ἀπὸ σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: generally, slab, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὧδ᾽ ὑπὸ τὸ σπιλάδος μέλαθρον, i.e. under this tombstone, [Refs]; hollow rock, cave, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __A.II as adjective, stony, or perhaps marly, i.e. γῆ, [Refs 4th c.BC+]