σκανδαλίζω skandalizō

Greek word for “to cause to stumble” · Strong’s G4624 · used 29 times in 27 verses

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Meaning

σκανδαλίζω; (σκάνδαλον);

How it is translated

Glosses given for skandalizō in context, with how often each is used:

• will fall away 6
• shall cause to stumble 4
• causes to stumble 2
• offended 2
• may cause to stumble 2
• causes to sin 2
• shall fall away 1
• falls away 1
• offended? 1
• may offend 1
• fall away 1
• shall be offended 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Mark 9 (4), Matthew 18 (3), Matthew 5 (2), Matthew 13 (2), Matthew 26 (2), Mark 14 (2), Matthew 11 (1), Matthew 15 (1), Matthew 17 (1), Matthew 24 (1)

Forms

• σκανδαλίζει 6
• σκανδαλίσῃ 3
• σκανδαλισθήσονται 3
• σκανδαλίζῃ 3
• σκανδαλισθῇ 2
• σκανδαλίζεται 2
• ἐσκανδαλίζοντο 2
• σκανδαλισθήσεσθε 2
• ἐσκανδαλίσθησαν 1
• σκανδαλίσωμεν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with skandalizō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• γέεννα geenna “hell” 6
• βάλλω ballō “to throw” 8
• εἰ ei “if” 10
• ἤ ē “or” 8
• καλός kalos “good” 6
• τράχηλος trachēlos “neck” 3
• δύο duo “two” 5
• εἰσέρχομαι eiserchomai “to enter” 5
• συμφέρω sumpherō “be profitable” 3
• θάλασσα thalassa “sea” 4
• εἷς ehis “one” 5
• ὀνικός onikos “huge millstone” 2

Key verses

The verses using skandalizō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 5:29 — And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy…
• Matthew 11:6 — And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
• Matthew 13:21 — Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
• Matthew 17:27 — Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his…
• Matthew 18:6 — But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were…
• Matthew 18:8 — Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than…
• Matthew 24:10 — And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
• Matthew 26:31 — Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall…
• Mark 4:17 — And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are…
• Mark 6:3 — Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were…
• Mark 9:43 — And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall…
• 2 Corinthians 11:29 — Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.