Words the Bible translates as obstacle
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- proskommaπρόσκομμαa stumbling block: something lying in the path that a person strikes against and trips over, and so the fall it brings on, an obstacle rather than a trap laid to catch someone.
- mikhsholמִכְשׁוֹלa stumbling block: anything that trips a person up, whether a literal obstacle in the path, the cause or occasion that makes someone fall, or the fall itself
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