Lexical Summary
skuthrópos: Sullen, gloomy, downcast
Original Word: σκυθρωπός
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: skuthrópos
Pronunciation: skoo-thro-pos'
Phonetic Spelling: (skoo-thro-pos')
KJV: of a sad countenance
NASB: gloomy face, looking sad
Word Origin: [from skuthros "sullen" and a derivative of G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι - appearing)]
1. angry-visaged, i.e. gloomy or affecting a mournful appearance
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
sad, gloomy
From skuthros (sullen) and a derivative of optanomai; angry-visaged, i.e. Gloomy or affecting a mournful appearance -- of a sad countenance.
see GREEK optanomai
HELPS Word-studies
4659 skythrōpós (from skythros, "gloomy" and ops, "countenance") – properly, grim-faced, looking sad, dejected (downcast, WP); (figuratively) the strain and struggle that goes with doing God's will in our way (like King Saul of the OT).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom skuthros (sullen) and óps (eye)
Definitionwith a gloomy look
NASB Translationgloomy face (1), looking sad (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4659: σκυθρωπόςσκυθρωπός,
σκυθρωπόν, also of three term.; cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 105 (
Winer's Grammar, § 11, 1) (
σκυθρός and
ὤψ),
of a sad and gloomy countenance (opposed to
φαιδρός,
Xenophon, mem. 3, 10, 4):
Luke 24:17; of one who feigns or affects a sad countenance,
Matthew 6:16. (
Genesis 40:7; Sir. 25:23; Greek writings from
Aeschylus down.)