Original Word: Σκύθης, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: Skuthés
Phonetic Spelling: (skoo'-thace)
Short Definition: a Scythian
Definition: a Scythian, as typical of the uncivilized.STRONGS NT 4658: Σκύθης

Σκύθης, Σκυθου, ὁ, a Scythian, an inhabitant of Scythia i. e. modern Russia: Colossians 3:11. By the more civilized nations of antiquity the Scythians were regarded as the wildest of all barbarians; cf. Cicero, in Verr. 2, 5, 58 § 150; in Pison. 8, 18; Josephus, c. Apion. 2, 37, 6; (Philo, leg. ad Gaium § 2); Lucian, Tox. 5f; 2 Macc. 4:47; 3Macc. 7:5. (See Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited; Hackett in B. D. under the word ; Rawlinson's Herod., Appendix to book iv., Essays ii. and iii.; Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Scythian.

Probably of foreign origin; a Scythene or Scythian, i.e. (by implication) a savage -- Scythian.

Forms and Transliterations

Σκυθης Σκύθης σκυθρωπάζει σκυθρωπάζων σκυθρωπάσει Skuthes Skuthēs Skythes Skythēs Skýthes Skýthēs

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