adverb

duskolōs

Greekδυσκόλως (duskolōs)

Strong’sG1423

with difficulty, hardly

stem duskolō-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books

Translated as

hard3×

What it means

* δυσκόλως

adv.,

with difficulty: Mt 19:23, Mk 10:23, Lk 18:24.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1423 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddoos-kol'-oce

impracticably

Fromadverb from G1422;

King Jameshardly.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

This word never changes. It is spelled the same wherever it appears, so there is nothing to learn beyond the word itself.

Where it appears

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

duskolōs3×

Matthew 19:23“hard”Tos de Iēsus legata toi mathētoi autou; Amēn legamō vi hoti plousios duskolōs eisercheti eis tan basileian toiu ouranoiu;Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10:23“hard”Kai peribleperatos tos Iēsus legatō toi mathētoi autou; Pōs duskolōs tois teim chrēmeim echarōtois eis tan basileian tou theou eisercheli.Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

Luke 18:24“hard”Horaratos de auton tos Iēsus legata; Pōs duskolōs tois teim chrēmeim echarōtois eis tan basileian tou theou eisporeuelō;Seeing the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!