Quick Definition
πρόσκομμα, ατος, τό n.n. a stumbling-block
Strong's Definition
from 4350; a stub, i.e. (figuratively) occasion of apostasy
KJV Usage: offence, stumbling(-block, (-stone))
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -τος | κόπτω
15.229 · Linear Movement · Walk, Step
stumbling stone that which causes someone to stumble
25.183 · Attitudes and Emotions · Offend, Be Offended
something to cause offense, what causes someone to be offended, offense an occasion or reason for taking offense
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πρόσ-κομμα, -ατος, τό, (προσκόπτω), a stumbling-block, i.e. an obstacle in the way which if one strike his foot against he necessarily stumbles or falls; trop. that over which the soul stumbles, i. e. by which it is impelled to sin: 1 Co. viii. 9 (Sir. xvii. 25 (20); xxxi. (xxxiv.) 19 (16) ; xxxix. 24) ; τιθέναι πρόσκ. τινι, to put a stumblingblock in one’s way, i. e. trop. to furnish one an occasion for sinning, Ro. xiv. 13 [WH mrg. om.]; 6 διὰ προσκόμματος ἐσθίων, [A.V.] who eateth with offence (see διά, A. 1. 2), by making no discrimination as to what he eats occasions another to act against his conscience, ibid. 20; λίθος προσκόμματος (fr. Is. viii. 14 for 42) 28), prop. a stone against which the foot strikes [A. V. stone a stumbling], used figuratively of Christ Jesus, with regard to whom it especially annoyed and offended the Jews that his words, deeds, career, and particularly his ignominious death on the cross, quite failed to correspond to their preconceptions respecting the Messiah ; hence they despised and rejected him, and by that crime brought upon themselves woe and punishment: Ro. ix. 32, 33; 1 Pet. ii. 8 (7). (In the Sept. for wpin, Ex. xxiii. 33 ; xxxiv. 12; [οἵ, Judith viii. 22]. ἃ sore or bruise caused by striking the foot against any object, Athen. 3 p. 97f.; a hindrance [?], Plut. mor. p. 1048 e. [i. 6. de Stoic. repugn. 30, 8 fin.].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πρόσκομμα proskomma 6x
a stumbling, Rom. 9:32, 33; 1 Pet. 2:8; met. a stumbling block, an occasion of sinning, means of inducing to sin, Rom. 14:13; 1 Cor. 8:9; met. a moral stumbling, a shock to the moral or religious sense, a moral embarrassment, Rom. 14:20*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† πρόσ-κομμα, -τος, τό
(< προσκόπτω), [in LXX: Ex 23:33 34:12 (מוֹקֵשׁ), Is 8:14 (נֶגֶף), Jth 8:22, Si 17:25, al.;]
a stumble, stumbling: λίθος προσκόμματος (= אֶבֶן נֶגֶף, Is 8:14), fig., Ro 9:32, 33, I Pe 2:8(LXX);
= προσκοπή, an occasion of stumbling, a stumbling-block: metaph., Ro 14:13, 20, I Co 8:9 (Plut.).†
SYN.: σκάνδαλον (cf. Cremer, 752 f.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πρόσκομμα (proskomma) — stumbling block. πρόσκομμα, ατος, τό, (προσκόπτω) stumble, λίθου πρόσκομμα [LXX]; ὁ λίθος τοῦ π. [NT]: hence, offence, obstacle, hindrance, [LXX+NT]
II. result of stumbling, bruise, hurt, προσκομμάτων ἀπόλυσις [Refs 1st c.AD+]