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Strong's #4625: skandalon (pronounced skan'-dal-on)

("scandal;" probably from a derivative of 2578; a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin):--occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends, stumblingblock.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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skandalon

1) the movable stick or trigger of a trap, a trap stick

1a) a trap, snare

1b) any impediment placed in the way and causing one to stumble or fall, (a stumbling block, occasion of stumbling), i.e. a rock which is a cause of stumbling

1c) fig. applied to Jesus Christ, whose person and career were so contrary to the expectations of the Jews concerning the Messiah, that they rejected him and by their obstinacy made shipwreck of their salvation

2) any person or thing by which one is (entrapped) drawn into error or sin

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: probably from a derivative of G2578

Citing in TDNT: 7:339, 1036




Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

Matthew 13:41: "his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;"
Matthew 16:23: "me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savorest not"
Matthew 18:7: "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses"
Matthew 18:7: "because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe"
Matthew 18:7: "man by whom the offense cometh!"
Luke 17:1: "It is impossible but that offenses will come: but woe unto him, through"
Romans 9:33: "a stumblingstone and rock of offense: and whosoever believeth"
Romans 11:9: "trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:"
Romans 14:13: "that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's"
Romans 16:17: "them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which"
1 Corinthians 1:23: "crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;"
Galatians 5:11: "suffer persecution? then is the offense of the cross ceased."
1 Peter 2:8: "of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word,"
1 John 2:10: "and there is none occasion of stumbling in him."
Revelation 2:14: "taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel,"









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