{"def":{"short":"shadiness, i.e., obscurity (literally or figuratively)","long":["darkness",["of night darkness","of darkened eyesight or blindness"],"metaphorically",["of ignorance respecting divine things and human duties, and the accompanying ungodliness and immorality, together with their consequent misery in hell","persons in whom darkness becomes visible and holds sway"]]},"deriv":"from the base of G4639","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈsko.tos","ipa_mod":"ˈskow.tows","sbl":"skotos","dic":"SKOH-tose","dic_mod":"SKOH-tose"},"see":["G4639"]}