noun · neuter
proskommem
Strong’sG4348
a stumbling-block
stem proskomm-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur
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.
† πρόσ-κομμα, -τος, τό
(< προσκόπτω), [in LXX: Ex 23:33 34:12 (מוֹקֵשׁ), Is 8:14 (נֶגֶף), Jth 8:22, Si 17:25, al.;]
SYN.: σκάνδαλον (cf. Cremer, 752 f.).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4348 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpros'-kom-mah
a stub, i.e. (figuratively) occasion of apostasy
Fromfrom G4350;
King Jamesoffence, stumbling(-block, (-stone)).
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
(προσκόπτω) stumble, λίθου πρόσκομμα LXX; ὁ λίθος τοῦ π. NT: hence, offence, obstacle, hindrance, LXX+NT
II result of stumbling, bruise, hurt, προσκομμάτων ἀπόλυσις Refs 1st c.AD+
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.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | proskommem1×πρόσκομμα | proskommeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | proskommeu4×προσκόμματος | proskommeiu |
| to, for dative | proskomme | proskommei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
proskomme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
proskommem“stumbling block”subject or objectdirect singular1×
1 Corinthians 8:9… mē pōs tas exousias vu houtas proskommem geneteia toi asthenoi.… your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
proskommeu“stumbling”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Romans 9:32… ek ergeiu; proskoptala to litho teu proskommeu,… by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Romans 9:33… grafotē; Idou tithamō en Siōn lithon proskommeu kai petran skandaleu, kai tos pisteuarōntos …… lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and …
Romans 14:20“fall”… alla kakosem to anthrōpo to dia proskommeu esthiarōnto.… God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let …
1 Peter 2:8kai lithos proskommeu kai petras skandaleu; hois proskoptalō to …and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They …
proskommem1×
Romans 14:13… houtem krinavar mallon, tem mē titharō proskommem to adelfo ē skandalem.… your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.