Scythian

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Scythian: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

an inhabitant of Scythia

Greek

Strongs #4658: skuyhv Skuthes

Scythian = "rude or rough"

1) a Scythian, an inhabitant of Scythia or modern day Russia
1a) by the more civilised nations of antiquity the Scythians were
regarded as the wildest of barbarians

4658 Skuthes skoo'-thace

probably of foreign origin; a Scythene or Scythian, i.e. (by
implication) a savage:-Scythian.

Scythian [EBD]

The Scythians consisted of "all the pastoral tribes who dwelt to the north of the Black Sea and the Caspian, and were scattered far away toward the east. Of this vast country but little was anciently known. Its modern representative is Russia, which, to a great extent, includes the same territories." They were the descendants of Japheth (Gen. 9:27). It appears that in apostolic times there were some of this people that embraced Christianity (Col. 3:11).

SCYTHIAN [SMITH]

occurs in (Colossians 3:11) as a generalized term for rude, ignorant, degraded. The name often included all the nomadic tribes, who dwelt mostly on the north of the Black and the Caspian Sea, stretching thence indefinitely into inner Asia, and were regarded by the ancients as standing extremely low In point of intelligence and civilization.