σκάνδαλον

skavndalon skavndalon,
skandavlou,
tov, a purely Biblical ((occurring some twenty-five times in the Greek O. T., and fifteen, quotations included, in the New)) and ecclesiastical word for
skandavlhqron, which occurs occasionally in native Greek writings; the Septuagint for vqe/m (a noose, a snare) and l/vk]mi; 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): ;
pevtra
skankalou (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
provskomma), and (7) (from ). b. metaphorically, "any person or thing by which one is (`entrapped') drawn into error or sin" (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32);
a. of persons ((; )): ; (where
skavndalon "non ex effectu, sed ex natura et condicione propria dicitur," Calov.); so
Cristov"
ejstaurwmevno" is called (because his ignominious death on the cross roused the opposition of the Jews), .
b. of things:
tiqevnai
tivni
skavndalon (literally, in ), to put a stumbling-block in one's way, i. e. to do that by which another is led to sin, ; the same idea is expressed by
bavllein
skavndalon
ejnwvpion
tivno" (to cast a stumbling-block before one), ;
oujk
ejsti
skavndalon
ejn
tivni (see
eijmiv, V. 4. e.), ; plural
skavndala, words or deeds which entice to sin (Sap. ), (cf. Buttmann, 322 (277) n.; Winer's Grammar, 371 (348)); ;
skavndala
poiei'n
parav
thvn
didachvn, to cause persons to be drawn away from the true doctrine into error and sin (cf.
parav, III. 2 a.), ;
tov
skavndalon
tou'
staurou', the offence which the cross, i. e. Christ's death on the cross, gives (cf.
a. at the end above), (R. V. the stumbling-block of the cross), ; equivalent to a cause of destruction, , from ().*