Greek verb · G4624
σκανδαλίζω
skandalizoskan-dal-id'-zo
to cause to stumble
29 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skandalízō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4624is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4624
to entrap, i.e. trip up (figuratively, stumble (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure)
The King James renders it: (make to) offend.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
skandalizo is rendered "to cause to stumble". It stands 29 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:29σκανδαλίζει
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's twenty-nine uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- will fall away5
- shall cause to stumble4
- causes to sin2
- causes to stumble2
- they were offended2
- does offend1
- he falls away1
- he may cause to stumble1
- I may snare1
- is led into sin1
- may cause to stumble1
- shall be offended1
and 7 more, 29 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σκάνδαλον | skandalon | stumbling block | Uses15 |
All 29, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σκανδαλίζει6
- σκανδαλίζῃ3
- σκανδαλίσῃ3
- σκανδαλισθήσονται3
- ἐσκανδαλίζοντο2
- σκανδαλίζεται2
- σκανδαλισθῇ2
- σκανδαλισθήσεσθε2
- ἐσκανδαλίσθησαν;¶1
- σκανδαλίζονται1
- σκανδαλισθήσομαι.¶1
- σκανδαλισθῆτε1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular6V-PAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular3V-AAS-3S
- verb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person plural3V-FPI-3P
- verb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular3V-PAS-3S
- verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singular2V-APS-3S
- verb · future passive, indicative · 2nd person plural2V-FPI-2P
- verb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-IPI-3P
- verb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-PPI-3S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person plural1V-AAS-1P
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singular1V-AAS-1S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-API-3P
- verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person plural1V-APS-2P
Matthew
fourteen uses
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- σκανδαλίζειskandalizeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: causes to stumble
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.
- σκανδαλίζειskandalizeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: causes to stumble
Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
- σκανδαλισθῇskandalistheaverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall fall away
But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
- σκανδαλίζεταιskandalizetaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he falls away
And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
- ἐσκανδαλίζοντοeskandalizontoverb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were offended
Then the disciples came to Him and said, “Are You aware that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”
- ἐσκανδαλίσθησαν;¶eskandalisthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were offended
“But so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for My tax and yours.”
- σκανδαλίσωμενskandalisomenverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: we may offend
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
- σκανδαλίσῃskandaliseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may cause to stumble
If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.
- σκανδαλίζειskandalizeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: causes to sin
And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
- σκανδαλίζειskandalizeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: causes to sin
At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,
- σκανδαλισθήσονταιskandalisthesontaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will fall away
Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
- σκανδαλισθήσεσθεskandalisthesestheverb · future passive, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: will fall away
Peter said to Him, “Even if all fall away on account of You, I never will.”
- σκανδαλισθήσονταιskandalisthesontaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will fall away
- σκανδαλισθήσομαι.¶skandalisthesomaiverb · future passive, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: will fall away
Mark
eight uses
But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
- σκανδαλίζονταιskandalizontaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they fall away
Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him.
- ἐσκανδαλίζοντοeskandalizontoverb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were offended
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.
- σκανδαλίσῃskandaliseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall cause to stumble
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
- σκανδαλίζῃskandalizeverb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall cause to stumble
If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
- σκανδαλίζῃskandalizeverb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall cause to stumble
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,
- σκανδαλίζῃskandalizeverb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall cause to stumble
Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’
- σκανδαλισθήσεσθεskandalisthesestheverb · future passive, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you will fall away
Peter declared, “Even if all fall away, I never will.”
- σκανδαλισθήσονταιskandalisthesontaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will fall away
Luke
two uses
Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
- σκανδαλισθῇskandalistheaverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall be offended
It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.
- σκανδαλίσῃskandaliseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he may cause to stumble
John
two uses
Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?
- σκανδαλίζειskandalizeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: does offend
“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.
- σκανδαλισθῆτεskandalistheteverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person pluraltagged: you may fall away
1 Corinthians
two uses
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
- σκανδαλίζειskandalizeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: snares
- σκανδαλίσω.¶skandalisoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may snare
2 Corinthians
one use
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?
- σκανδαλίζεταιskandalizetaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is led into sin
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.