- σκιά
- σκιά, ᾶς, ἡ (Hom.+; ins, pap, LXX; ParJer 3: 14; 5:1 Philo; Jos., Bell. 2, 28 σκιά-σῶμα, Ant. 5, 238; 10, 29; Just., Mel., Ath.).① shade or shelter from light and any heat associated with it, shade Mk 4:32 (cp. Ezk 17:23; ParJer, Just., Ath.).② the shape cast by an object as it blocks rays of light, shadowⓐ lit. Ac 5:15ⓑ fig. (s. σκότος 3.—Jos., Bell. 1, 215) σκιὰ θανάτου shadow of death (Job 12:22; Ps 22:4; 43:20; Jer 13:16; Mel., P. 56, 409 τὰς τοῦ θανάτου σκιάς.—So also σκιά by itself of the shadow of death, which stands beside an old man: Herodas 1, 16) Mt 4:16 (Is 9:1); w. σκότος (Job 3:5; Ps 106:10, 14) Lk 1:79 (Ps 106, 10; s. New Docs 4, 149). For σκοτία 1J 2:8 v.l.③ a mere representation of someth. real, shadow (from the sense of insubstantial aspect, e.g. shades of the dead: Od. 10, 495; Aeschyl., Eum. 302, there develops the idea of a contrast between image and reality: Prodicus [V B.C.] Fgm. 2 [in X., Mem. 2, 1, 22]; Achilles Tat. 1, 15, 6 τὸ ὕδωρ ἦν κάτοπτρον, ὡς δοκεῖν τὸ ἄλσος εἶναι διπλοῦν, τὸ μὲν τ. ἀληθείας, τὸ δὲ τ. σκιᾶς ‘the water served as a mirror suggesting that the grove was twofold, one real and the other a reflection’; Phalaris, Ep. 35 λόγος ἔργου σκ. Oft. in Philo: Somn. 1, 206, Plant. 27; Leg. All. 3, 102, Post. Caini 112) σκιὰ τῶν μελλόντων a shadow of what is to come Col 2:17 (opp. τὸ σῶμα, as Philo, Conf. Lingu. 190; Jos., Bell. 2, 28; Lucian, Hermot. 79). ὑπόδειγμα καὶ σκιὰ τῶν ἐπουρανίων Hb 8:5 (Synes., Ep. 44 p. 182d τοῦ θείου σκ. τὸ ἀνθρώπινον; LHurst, JTS 34, ’83, 163–65). σκιά forms a contrast to εἰκών (s. εἰκών 3) 10:1.—B. 62.—DELG. M-M. EDNT. TW.
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