σκανδαλίζω
skandalizō
to cause to stumble
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word σκανδαλίζω (skandalizō) means "to cause to stumble." This verb is used 30 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in the narrative. The word typically connotes a sense of leading someone astray or causing them to lose their footing, whether physically or metaphorically. In its various occurrences, σκανδαλίζω is often associated with offenses or scandals that lead people away from the truth or from God. This can be due to the actions of others, such as a leader causing their followers to stumble, or it can be a result of one's own choices. The word highlights the importance of being mindful of the impact our words and actions have on others. The frequency and range of usage for σκανδαλίζω suggest that it is a critical concept in the biblical narrative, encompassing themes of leadership, morality, and personal responsibility.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
30 total occurrences across the text
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 5:30If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 11:6Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
Matthew 13:21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
Matthew 13:57They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”
Matthew 15:12Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
Matthew 17:27But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”
Matthew 18:6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.
Matthew 18:8If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
Matthew 18:9If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
Matthew 24:10Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
Matthew 26:33But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”
Matthew 26:33But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”
Mark 4:17They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
Mark 6:3Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.
Mark 9:42Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
Mark 9:43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
Mark 9:45If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—
Mark 9:47If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
Mark 14:27Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’
Mark 14:29But Peter said to him, “Although all will be offended, yet I will not.”
Luke 7:23Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
Luke 17:2It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
John 6:61But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?
John 16:1“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.
Romans 14:21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
1 Corinthians 8:13Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
1 Corinthians 8:13Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
2 Corinthians 11:29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?