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Lexicon :: Strong's G4625 - skandalon

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σκάνδαλον
Transliteration
skandalon (Key)
Pronunciation
skan'-dal-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from a derivative of κάμπτω (G2578)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:339,1036

Strong’s Definitions

σκάνδαλον skándalon, skan'-dal-on; ("scandal"); probably from a derivative of G2578; a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin):—occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends, stumblingblock.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G4625 in the following manner: offence (9x), stumbling block (3x), occasion of stumbling (1x), occasion to fall (1x), thing that offends (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G4625 in the following manner: offence (9x), stumbling block (3x), occasion of stumbling (1x), occasion to fall (1x), thing that offends (1x).

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

    1. a trap, snare

    2. 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

    3. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σκάνδαλον skándalon, skan'-dal-on; ("scandal"); probably from a derivative of G2578; a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin):—occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends, stumblingblock.
STRONGS G4625:
σκάνδαλον, σκανδάλου, τό, a purely Biblical ((occurring some twenty-five times in the Greek O. T., and fifteen, quotations included, in the New)) and ecclesiastical word for σκανδάληθρον, which occurs occasionally in native Greek writings; the Sept. for מוקֵשׁ (a noose, a snare) and מִכְשׁול;
a. properly, the movable stick or tricker ('trigger') of a trap, trap-stick; a trap, snare; any impediment placed in the way and causing one to stumble or fall (a stumblingblock, occasion of stumbling): Leviticus 19:14; πέτρα σκανκαλου (A. V. a rock of offence), i. e. a rock which is a cause of stumbling (Latin offendiculum) — figuratively 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 salvation (see πρόσκομμα), Romans 9:33 and 1 Peter 2:8 (7) (from Isaiah 8:14).
b. metaphorically, any person or thing by which one is ('entrapped') drawn into error or sin (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32);
α. of persons ((Joshua 23:13; 1 Samuel 18:21)): Matthew 13:41; Matthew 16:23 (where σκάνδαλον "non ex effectu, sed ex natura et condicione propria dicitur," Calov.); so Χριστός ἐσταυρωμένος is called (because his ignominious death on the cross roused the opposition of the Jews), 1 Corinthians 1:23.
β. of things: τιθέναι τίνι σκάνδαλον (literally, in Judith 5:1), to put a stumbling-block in one's way, i. e. to do that by which another is led to sin, Romans 14:13; the same idea is expressed by βάλλειν σκάνδαλον ἐνώπιον τίνος (to cast a stumbling-block before one), Revelation 2:14; οὐκ ἐστι σκάνδαλον ἐν τίνι (see εἰμί, V. 4. e.), 1 John 2:10; plural σκάνδαλα, words or deeds which entice to sin (Wis. 14:11), Matthew 18:7 (cf. Buttmann, 322 (277) n.; Winer's Grammar, 371 (348)); Luke 17:1; σκάνδαλα ποιεῖν παρά τήν διδαχήν, to cause persons to be drawn away from the true doctrine into error and sin (cf. παρά, III. 2 a.), Romans 16:17; τό σκάνδαλον τοῦ σταυροῦ, the offence which the cross, i. e. Christ's death on the cross, gives (cf. α. at the end above), (R. V. the stumbling-block of the cross), Galatians 5:11; equivalent to a cause of destruction, Romans 11:9, from Psalm 68:23 (Ps. 69:23).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
19:14
Joshua
23:13
1 Samuel
18:21
Psalms
68:23; 69:23
Isaiah
8:14
Matthew
13:41; 16:23; 18:7
Luke
17:1
Romans
9:33; 11:9; 14:13; 16:17
1 Corinthians
1:23
Galatians
5:11
1 Peter
2:8
1 John
2:10
Revelation
2:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4625 matches the Greek σκάνδαλον (skandalon),
which occurs 14 times in 14 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:14 - Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:3 - Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:21 - And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31 - That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:13 - This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:20 - Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:22 - Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:36 - And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:165

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:165 - Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:5 - The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:9 - Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:17 - Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
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