The corpus record

σκοτί-α

skotia · ἡ

darkness, gloom

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Where it lives

1 John 6 · 28.22/10k
John 8 · 5.24/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Matthew 2 · 1.12/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Luke 1 · 0.52/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k

What it meant

σκοτί-α · skoti-a — LSJ

darkness, gloom

darkness, gloom, A.R. 4.1698, LXX (Mi. 3.6, al.), NT (Ev.Matt. 10.27, al.), cf. Moer. p.354P.

II scotia, cavetto, the dark shadow

in Architecture, scotia, cavetto, a sunken moulding, so called from the dark shadow it casts, Vitr. 3.5.2, Hsch.

III

Σκοτιά, epith. of Aphrodite in Egypt, Id.

In the wild

σκοτίαις · skotiais Euripides, Bacchae 545–549
σκοτία · skotia Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 26)
σκοτίας · skotias Euripides, Ion *kre/ousa.860 (DIORISIS sentence 561)
σκοτία · skotia New Testament, 1 John 1.5 (DIORISIS sentence 4)
σκοτίᾳ · skotiai New Testament, 1 John 2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 22)
σκοτία · skotia New Testament, 1 John 2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 22)

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Where it came from

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