προσκόπτω

proskovptw proskovptw; 1 aorist
prosekoya; to strike against (cf.
prov", IV. 4): absolutely of those who strike against a stone or other obstacle in the path, to stumble, ,;
prov"
livqon
tovn
povda, to strike the foot against a stone, i. e. (dropping the figure) to meet with some harm, ; (from ()); to rush upon, beat against,
oiJ
a[nemoi
th'/
oijkiva, (L marginal reading
proserrhxan, see
prosrhvgnumi).
ejn
tivni, to be made to stumble by a thing, i. e. metaphorically, to be induced to sin, (cf. Winer's Grammar, 583 (542); Buttmann, sec. 151, 23 d.). Since we are angry with an obstacle in our path which we have struck and hurt our foot against, one is tropically said
proskovptein, to stumble at, a person or thing which highly displeases him; thus the Jews are said
proskovyai
tw'/
livqw/
tou'
proskovmmato", i. e. to have recoiled from Jesus as one who failed to meet their ideas of the Messiah (see
provskomma), ; the enemies of Christianity are said
proskovmmato" ...
tw'/
lovgw/, (some (cf. R. V. marginal reading) take
proskovmmato" here absolutely, and make
tw'/
lovgw/ depend on
ajpeiqou'nte", which see in a.). (Examples of this and other figurative uses of the word by Polybius, Diodorus, M. Antoninus are cited by Passow (Liddell and Scott), under the word and Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans, ii., p. 362f.)*