G4625 – skandalon – σκάνδαλον – a stumbling block; fig. an offensive thing, scandal
- Strong’s ID:
- G4625
- Greek Word:
- σκάνδαλον
- Transliteration:
- skandalon
- Pronunciation:
- skan’-dal-on
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Etymology:
- probably from a derivative of G2578
- Usage Count:
- 15
- Search:
- Find “skandalon” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
1) a stumbling block, trip hazard
3) figuratively: an offensive thing
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
(“scandal”); probably from a derivative of G2578; a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e., snare (fig. cause of displeasure or sin):—occasion to fall (of stumbling), offense, thing that offends, stumblingblock.
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) 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
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.