πρόσκομμα
próskomma · G4348 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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stumbling stone
That which causes someone to stumble
ExamplesRomans 9:32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though they could by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Romans 9:33 just as it is written: “BEHOLD, I AM LAYING IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND THE ONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME.”
1 Peter 2:8 and, “A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this they were also appointed.
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something to cause offense, what causes someone to be offended, offense
An offense or cause of stumbling, something that makes another take offense or gives occasion to sin
ExamplesRomans 14:13 Therefore let’s not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this: not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s or sister’s way.
Romans 14:20 Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the person who eats and causes offense.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τίθημιto put 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐξουσίαauthority, power, right 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διάthrough 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- λίθοςstone 3
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- σκάνδαλον skándalon · G4625 · trap, that which causes someone to sin, one who causes someone to sin
- Both terms describe obstacles that cause spiritual stumbling or offense. While σκάνδαλον emphasizes the trap-like nature of the cause (the mechanism that ensnares), πρόσκομμα emphasizes the obstacle itself that one strikes against, both functioning interchangeably to denote what provokes sin or apostasy.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Stumbling stone15.229
- The noun names a literal obstacle placed in one's path that causes one to trip. Paul's citation of Isaiah on Israel's unbelief uses this term: “just as it is written: 'BEHOLD, I AM LAYING IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND THE ONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME'” (Romans 9:33).
- Something to cause offense, what causes someone to be offended, offense25.183
- The same noun, used figuratively, names something in one's conduct that becomes a cause of another's spiritual harm. Paul's teaching on Christian liberty uses this term: “But take care that this freedom of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak” (1 Corinthians 8:9).
- That which causes someone to sin or that which provides an occasion for someone to sin88.307
- The same noun describes an obstacle deliberately or carelessly placed that leads another into wrongdoing. Paul's teaching on judging one another uses this term: “Therefore let's not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this: not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's or sister's way” (Romans 14:13).
Word family 27 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προσκόμματος, τό (προσκόπτω), a stumbling-block, i. e. an obstacle in the way which if…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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