σκανδαλίζω; 1 aorist 
ἐσκανδαλισα; passive, present 
σκανδαλίζομαι; imperfect 
ἐσκανδαλιζομην; 1 aorist 
ἐσκανδαλίσθην (cf. 
Buttmann, 52 (45)); 1 future 
σκανδαλισθήσομαι; (
σκάνδαλον); 
Vulg.scandalizo; Peshitto 
lSK) []; properly, 
to put a stumbling-block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall; 
to be a stumbling-block; in the N. T. always metaphorically, (
R. V. to cause or make to stumble; 
A. V. to offend (cause to offend)); 
a. to entice to sin (Luth. ärgern, i. e. arg, bös machen): 
τινα, 
Matthew 5:29 (
Matthew 5:30); 
Matthew 18:6,
8f; 
Mark 9:42f, 
45, 
47; 
Luke 17:2; 
1 Corinthians 8:13; passive Latin
offendor (
A. V. to be offended), 
Vulg.scandalizor, Peshitto 
lSK []: 
Romans 14:21 (
R G L Tr text); 
2 Corinthians 11:29 (
R. V. is made to stumble; cf. 
Winers Grammar, 153 (145)). 
b. "to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey; to cause to fall away," and in the passive, 
to fall away (
R. V. to stumble (cf. '
Teaching etc. 16, 5 [ET]; 
Hermas, vis. 4, 1, 3 [ET]; mand. 8, 10 [ET])): 
τινα, 
John 6:61; passive, 
Matthew 13:21; 
Matthew 24:10; 
Matthew 26:33; 
Mark 4:17; 
Mark 14:29; (
John 16:1); 
ἐν τίνι (
A. V.) 
to be offended in one, (find occasion of stumbling in), i. e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority: 
Matthew 11:6; 
Matthew 13:57; 
Matthew 26:31; 
Mark 6:3; 
Mark 14:27; 
Luke 7:23; 
to cause one to judge unfavorably or unjustly of another, Matthew 17:27. Since the man who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed, 
σκανδαλίζω means c. 
to cause one to feel displeasure at a thing; to make indignant: 
τινα, passive, 
to be displeased, indignant (
A. V. offended), 
Matthew 15:12. The verb 
σκανδαλίζω is found neither in secular authors nor in the 
Sept., but only in the relies of 
Aq.'s version of the O. T., 
Psalm 63:9 (
Ps. 64:9); 
Isaiah 8:15; (xl. 30); 
Proverbs 4:12 for 
כָּשַׁל; besides in Sir. 9:5 Sir. 23:8 Sir. 35:15 (Sir. 32:15); (Psalt. 
Sal. 16, 
7. Cf. 
Winer's Grammar, 33.) 
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