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Thompson Chain Reference
• Stumbling-Blocks
Dictionaries
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Stumbling Block
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Stumbling Block
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Stumbling Block
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Stumbling-Block
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Stumble, Stumbling-Block
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Stumbling Block
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Stumbling, Stumbling Block, Stumbling-Stone
Wilson's Bible Types
• Stumbling (Block and Stone)
Webster Dictionary
• Top-Block
• Stumbling-Block
• Snatch Block
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Block
• Maurice Block
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Stumbling-Block; Stumbling-Stone
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Blocking-Course
• Stumbling Block
Lexicons
• ܬ݁ܽܘܩܰܠܬ݁ܳܐ
• πρόσκομμα
• σκάνδαλον
• בוּלּ , בוּלּ
• גָּדַר
• חָסַם
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(from the Fr. bloc, and possibly connected with an Old Ger. Block, obstruction, cf. "baulk"), a piece of wood. The word is used in various senses, e.g. the block upon which people were beheaded, the block or mould upon which a hat is shaped, a pulley-block, a printing-block, &c. From the sense of a solid mass comes the expression, a "block" of houses, i.e. a rectangular space covered with houses and bounded by four streets. From the sense of "obstruction" comes a "block" in traffic, a block in any proceedings, and the block system of signalling on railways.