δύσκολος
dýskolos · G1422 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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difficult, hard, with difficulty
Pertaining to that which is difficult to accomplish or do
ExamplesMark 10:24 And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus responded again and said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
How it’s used
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Difficult, hard, with difficulty22.32
- Used of a demanding or burdensome undertaking, as of the disciples' amazement at Jesus' words and His repeated statement that it is hard to enter the kingdom of God in Mark 10:24.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δύσκολόν (κόλον, food); 1. properly, hard to find agreeable food for, fastidious about…
1. properly, hard to find agreeable food for, fastidious about food.
2. difficult to please, always finding fault; (Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others).
3. universally, difficult (Xenophon, oec. 15, 10 ἡ γεωργία δύσκολος ἐστι μαθεῖν): πῶς δύσκολόν ἐστι, followed by an accusative with an infinitive, Mk 10:24.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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