skandalon · cause for stumbling

What it means

skandalon (σκάνδαλον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “cause for stumbling”.

What makes someone fall into sin.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Something that makes someone fall into sin.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stumbling block ×5
• offense ×4
• stumbling blocks ×3
• cause for stumbling ×1
• causes of stumbling ×1
• offenses ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×5
• Luke×1
• Romans×4
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• 1 Peter×1
• 1 John×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 13:41

  The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the causes of stumbling and those who do lawlessness,

• Matthew 16:23

  But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not thinking the things of God but the things of men.”

• Matthew 18:7

  Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! For it is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom the stumbling block comes!

• Luke 17:1

  And he said to his disciples, “It is impossible that stumbling blocks should not come; but woe to the one through whom they come!

• Romans 9:33

  as it is written: Look, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.

• Romans 11:9

  And David says: Let their table become a snare and a trap and an offense and a retribution to them;

• Romans 14:13

  Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but rather judge this: not to put a cause of stumbling or an offense in the way of your brother.

• Romans 16:17

  Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the teaching that you learned, and turn away from them.

• 1 Corinthians 1:23

  but we proclaim the Messiah crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to the nations foolishness,

• Galatians 5:11

  But I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

• 1 Peter 2:8

  and A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble because they disobey the word, and to this they were also destined.

• 1 John 2:10

  Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

• Revelation 2:14

  But I have a few things against you, that you have there some who hold fast the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

And 2 more times.