# G4625 σκάνδαλον

σκάνδαλον (skándalon), Strong’s G4625: a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin) KJV: occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends…

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

KJV: occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends, stumblingblock

Derived from [κάμπτω kámptō](https://besorah.bible/word/G2578) (to bend)

Occurs 35 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 13:41](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/13?v=41) — The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and…
- [Matthew 16:23](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/16?v=23) — But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your…
- [Matthew 18:7](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/18?v=7) — “Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person…
- [Luke 17:1](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/17?v=1) — He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom…
- [Romans 9:33](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/9?v=33) — even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him…
- [Romans 11:9](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/11?v=9) — David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
- [Romans 14:13](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/14?v=13) — Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his…
- [Romans 16:17](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/16?v=17) — Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the…
- [1 Corinthians 1:23](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/1?v=23) — but we proclaim Messiah crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
- [Galatians 5:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/5?v=11) — But I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has…
