skandalivzw skandalivzw; 1 aorist ejskandalisa; passive, present skandalivzomai; imperfect ejskandalizomhn; 1 aorist ejskandalivsqhn (cf. Buttmann, 52 (45)); 1 future skandalisqhvsomai; (skavndalon); Vulgate scandalizo; Peshitto [?]; properly, to put a stumbling-block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall; to be a stumbling-block; in the N. T. always metaphorically, (R. V. to cause or make to stumble; A. V. to offend (cause to offend)); a. to entice to sin (Luth. ?rgern, i. e. arg, b?s machen): tina, (30); ,f; f,45,47; ; ; passive Latin offendor (A. V. to be offended), Vulgate scandalizor, Peshitto [?]: (R G L Tr text); (R. V. is made to stumble; cf. Winer's Grammar, 153 (145)). b. "to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey; to cause to fall away," and in the passive, to fall away (R. V. to stumble (cf. `Teaching' etc. 16, 5; Hermas, vis. 4, 1, 3; mand. 8, 10)): tina, ; passive, ; ; ; ; ; (); ejn tivni (A. V.) to be offended in one, (find occasion of stumbling in), i. e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority: ; ; ; ; ; ; to cause one to judge unfavorably or unjustly of another, . Since the man who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed, skandalivzw means c. to cause one to feel displeasure at a thing; to make indignant: tina, passive, to be displeased, indignant (A. V. offended), . The verb skandalivzw is found neither in secular authors nor in the Septuagint, but only in the relies of Aquila's version of the O. T., (); ; (xl. 30); for lv'K;; besides in ; ; (); (Psalt. Sal. 16, 7. Cf. Winer's Grammar, 33.)*