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STUMBLING-BLOCK (Gr. skandalon; AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘offence,’ ‘occasion to fall,’ ‘stumbling-block’; RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘stumbling-block,’ ‘thing that causes stumbling,’ ‘occasion of stumbling’). Properly the spring of a trap (cf. Romans 11:9 ); hence something that ensnares or trips up . The verb is skandatizein; AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘offend,’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘cause to stumble.’

David Smith.