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noun · feminine

proskopas

Greekπροσκοπή (proskopē)

Strong’sG4349

a cause of stumbling

stem proskop-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

obstacle

What it means

** προσκοπή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< προσκόπτω), [in Gr. Ven.: Pr 16:18 (כִּשָּׁלוֹן)*;]

an occasion of stumbling, offence: II Co 6:3.†

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

Strong’s G4349 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpros-kop-ay'

a stumbling, i.e. (figuratively and concretely) occasion of sin

Fromfrom G4350;

King Jamesoffence.

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

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeproskopasproskopais
object accusativeproskopanπροσκοπήνproskopain
direct address vocativeproskoparproskopair
of, belonging to genitiveproskopauproskopaiu
to, for dativeproskopaproskopai

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
proskopstem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

proskopa 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

proskopan“obstacle”objectaccusative singular

2 Corinthians 6:3“obstacle”mēdenan en mēdeno dōarōtois proskopan, hina mē mōmiteia tas diakonias,We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.