G4624 – skandalizo – σκανδαλίζω – to trip up; fig. to offend, scandalize

Strong’s ID:
G4624
Greek Word:
σκανδαλίζω
Transliteration:
skandalizo
Pronunciation:
skan-dal-id’-zo
Part of Speech:
verb
Etymology:
from
Usage Count:
30
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Find “skandalizo” in the Bible (New Testament)

Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon

1) to trip up
2) to offend

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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

(“scandalize”); from ; to entrap, i.e., to trip up (fig. stumble [trans.]) or entice to sin, apostacy or displeasure):—(make to) offend.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, metaphorically to offend
1a) to entice to sin
1b) to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey
1b1) to cause to fall away
1b2) to be offended in one, i.e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority
1b3) to cause one to judge unfavourably or unjustly of another
1c) since one who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed
1c1) to cause one displeasure at a thing
1c2) to make indignant
1c3) to be displeased, indignant

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