Definition

a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin)

Etymology

("scandal"); probably from a derivative of G2578 (κάμπτω);

Where the KJV renders it

• occasion to fall (of stumbling)
• offence
• thing that offends
• stumblingblock

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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