Strong's Number 4624
Transliteration:
skandalizo
{skan-dal-id'-zo}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
7:339,1036
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
offend 28, make to offend 2
Total: 30
Definition:
- to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, metaph. to offend
- to entice to sin
- to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey
- to cause to fall away
- to be offended in one, i.e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority
- to cause one to judge unfavourably or unjustly of another
- since one who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed
- to cause one displeasure at a thing
- to make indignant
- to be displeased, indignant