- Transliteration: Skandalizo

- Phonetic: skan-dal-id'-zo

- Definition:

1. to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, metaph. to offend

a. to entice to sin

b. 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

c. 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" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4625

- TDNT entry: 12:39,1

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: To scandalize; from G4625" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4625; to entrap that is trip up (figuratively stumble [transitively] or entice to sin apostasy or displeasure): - (make to) offend.