duskolōs

Strong’sG1423

with difficulty, hardly

stem duskolō-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 booksnever changes form

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* 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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

Included with: δύσ-κολος, ον,
(κόλον):
I of persons, properly hard to satisfy with food Refs 2nd c.AD+: but, generally, hard to please, discontented, fretful, peevish, Refs 5th c.BC+; of animals, intractable, Refs adverb δυσκόλως, ἔχειν, διακεῖσθαι πρός τιναRefs 5th c.BC+
II of things, troublesome, harassing, δ. ἡ ἡνιόχησις Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, unpleasant, ἄν τι δ. συμβῇ Refs 4th c.BC+; καιροὶ δ. difficult times, Refs. adverb -λως, ὑπακούειν Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 difficult to explain, Refs 4th c.BC+; δ. ἐστι it is difficult, NT+1st c.AD+; τὰ μὲν ῥάδια.. τὰ δὲ δ. Refs 1st c.BC+. adverb -λως hardly, with difficulty, NT

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

hard3×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

duskolōs3×

Matthew 19:23… autou; Amēn legamō vi hoti plousios duskolōs eisercheti eis tan basileian toiu ouranoiu;… Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter …

Mark 10:23… Iēsus legatō toi mathētoi autou; Pōs duskolōs tois teim chrēmeim echarōntois eis tan …… and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to …

Luke 18:24… de auton tos Iēsus legata; Pōs duskolōs tois teim chrēmeim echarōntois eis tan …… the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to …