The corpus record

σκοτίζω

skotizo

make dark, get in the light of, stupefy

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Where it lives

Romans 2 · 2.85/10k
Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Revelation 1 · 1.01/10k
Mark 1 · 0.91/10k
Psalmi 3 · 0.88/10k
Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

σκοτίζω · skotizō — LSJ

make dark, get in the light of, stupefy, to be darkened, to be blinded, to be dizzy

make dark, τὸν θεὸν τὸν φωτίζοντα καὶ σκοτίζοντα τὸν κόσμον Tab.Defix.Aud. 242.13 (Carthage, iii A.D.); get in the light of, ἐνέργειαν Gal. 18(2).698: metaph., λαβὼν δισσὰς ἐσκότισας χάριτας Ἀρχ. Δελτ. 11.57 (Larissa), cf. D.H. Th. 33, Them. Or. 11.153a; stupefy, σκορπίους Dsc. Eup. 2.133:—Pass., to be darkened, Plu. Col. 2.1120e; to be blinded, σκοτισθήτωσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῶν LXX Ps. 68(69).24; τῇ διανοίᾳ Ep.Eph. 4.18 (v.l.); χολῇ τὰς φρένας Tz. H. 8.929; to be dizzy, Aesop. 247b.

In the wild

σκοτισθήσεται · skotisthēsetai New Testament, Mark 13.24 (DIORISIS sentence 612)
σκοτισθήσεται · skotisthēsetai New Testament, Matthew 24.29 (DIORISIS sentence 1026)
σκοτισθῇ · skotisthēi New Testament, Revelation 8.12 (DIORISIS sentence 151)
ἐσκοτίσθη · eskotisthē New Testament, Romans 1.20 (DIORISIS sentence 12)
σκοτισθήτωσαν · skotisthētōsan New Testament, Romans 11.9 (DIORISIS sentence 315)
ἐσκοτισμένον · eskotismenon Plotinus, Enneads 1.8 (DIORISIS sentence 563)

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