# G4649 σκοπός

σκοπός (skopós), Strong’s G4649: perhaps akin to G4626 (σκάπτω) through the idea of concealment; compare G4629 (σκέπασμα)); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by implication) a goal KJV: mark. Occurs…

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*skopós* — perhaps akin to G4626 (σκάπτω) through the idea of concealment; compare G4629 (σκέπασμα)); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by implication) a goal

KJV: mark

Occurs 28 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Philippians 3:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/philippians/3?v=14) — I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Yeshua.
- [Wisdom of Solomon 5:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/5?v=12) — Or it is like when an arrow is shot at a mark, the air it divided closes up again immediately, so that men don’t know…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 5:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/5?v=21) — Shafts of lightning will fly with true aim. They will leap to the mark from the clouds, as from a well-drawn bow.
- [Sirach 37:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/37?v=14) — For a man’s soul is sometimes inclined to inform him better than seven watchmen who sit on high on a watch-tower.