4624 – σκανδαλίζω (skandalizo)

offend

Description

1. To put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, Metaphor, to offend.
   1. To entice to sin.
   2. To cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey.
      1. To cause to fall away.
      2. To be offended in one, i.e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority.
      3. To cause one to judge unfavourably or unjustly of another.
   3. Since one who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed.
      1. To cause one displeasure at a thing.
      2. To make indignant.
      3. To be displeased, indignant.

Origin

From G4625:

Equivalent Hebrew/Aramaic words

In the Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation, the following Hebrew/Aramaic words have been translated into skandalizo :

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