STRONGS G4694:
σπιλάς,
σπιλαδος,
ἡ,
a rock in the sea, ledge or reef (
Homer, Odyssey 3, 298; 5, 401, and in other poets;
Polybius,
Diodorus,
Josephus,
b. j. 3, 9, 3); plural, tropically, of men who by their conduct damage others morally, wreck them as it were, equivalent to
σκάνδαλα (
R. V. text
hidden rocks),
Jude 1:12 (here
L T Tr WH read
οἱ (namely,
ὄντες)
σπιλάδες. Some (so
R. V. marginal reading) make the word equivalent to the following; see Rutherford as there referred to.)
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