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Strong's #4348: proskomma (pronounced pros'-kom-mah)

from 4350; a stub, i.e. (figuratively) occasion of apostasy:--offence, stumbling(-block, (-stone)).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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proskomma

1) a stumbling block

1a) an obstacle in the way which if one strikes his foot against he stumbles or falls

1b) that over which a soul stumbles, i.e. by which is caused to sin

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G4350

Citing in TDNT: 6:745, 946




Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Romans 9:32: "of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;"
Romans 9:33: "I lay in Zion a stumblingstone and rock of offense:"
Romans 14:13: "this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's"
Romans 14:20: "for that man who eateth with offense."
1 Corinthians 8:9: "liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak."
1 Peter 2:8: "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble"









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