Bible Dictionary: Blocks

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Greek

4625. skandalon -- a stick for bait (of a trap), generally a snare ...
... generally a snare, a stumbling block, an offense NASB Word Usage cause for stumbling
(1), hindrances (1), offense (2), stumbling block (7), stumbling blocks (4 ...
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4653. skotia -- darkness
... Cognate: 4653 (a noun) -- , a brand of moral, spiritual (ie which blocks the light
of God when faith is lacking). See also 4655 ("darkness"). ...
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858. aphelotes -- simplicity
... the opposite of , "rocky land"), ie (a level plain); (figuratively) what is
uncomplicated and unencumbered, ie without hindrances or stumbling blocks (J. Thayer ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4383. mikshol -- a stumbling, means or occasion of stumbling, a ...
... a stumbling block NASB Word Usage fall (1), obstacle (2), occasion of stumbling
(1), stumble (2), stumbling block (6), stumbling blocks (1), troubled (1). ...
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Library

The Little Ones and their Stumbling-Blocks.
... Book XIII. 17. The Little Ones and Their Stumbling-Blocks. But it is a
hard task to expound what follows in logical harmony with ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/17 the little ones and.htm

Where There is Only one Woman, the Father Does not Make a Stay ...
... Clement. Chapter V."Where There is Only One Woman, the Father Does Not Make
a Stay; How Carefully Stumbling-Blocks Must Be Avoided. ...
/.../clement/two epistles concerning virginity/chapter v where there is only.htm

Self-Mutilation for Self-Preservation
... Indeed, none can do them any harm but ourselves. For men may put stumbling-blocks
in our way, but it is we who make them stumbling-blocks. ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture b/self-mutilation for self-preservation.htm

In what Sense "Necessary. "
... of stumbling should arise, since there is a necessity also that wickedness should
exist before virtue in men, from which wickedness stumbling-blocks arise; for ...
/.../origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/23 in what sense necessary.htm

The City of the "Elegant Gate"[*]
... It is surrounded by a wall about twenty feet in height, and eight or ten feet in
thickness, built of large blocks of coarse granite. It has four gates. ...
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Psalm CXL.
... They have "laid stumbling-blocks beside the paths;" do not thou withdraw out
of the paths, and thou wilt not rush upon stumbling-blocks. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxl.htm

The New Testament Has Preserved for us the Most Valuable Portion ...
... author of the Second Epistle of Peter and Irenæus complain of the difficulties which
they contain, indeed they presented a thousand stumbling-blocks to the ...
/.../harnack/the origin of the new testament/ 4 the new testament.htm

The Bethlehem Fog.
... Here the light came close to some thick blocks; of stupid thickness; human blocks
grown more toughly thick by the persistent resisting of any such transparent ...
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Peter as a Stumbling-Block to Jesus.
... look to things seen and temporal, [5715] but that such still more would be stigmatized
by Jesus as a stumbling-block to Him, and because stumbling-blocks to Him ...
/.../origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/23 peter as a stumbling-block.htm

Letter xvi. --To Amphilochius.
... pairs of sides of the octagon which are diametrically opposed to one another, unite
by means of arches the central circle to the adjoining blocks of building ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/letter xvi to amphilochius.htm

Thesaurus

Blocks (9 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Blocks (9 Occurrences). Matthew 13:41 ... NAS). Matthew
18:7 Wo to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there ...
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Stumbling-blocks (8 Occurrences)
Stumbling-blocks. Stumblingblocks, Stumbling-blocks. Stumblings .
Multi-Version Concordance Stumbling-blocks (8 Occurrences). ...
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Quarries (4 Occurrences)
... Zerubbabel, and Herod. Huge blocks of stone are still found in these caves
bearing the Marks of pick and chisel. The general appearance ...
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Block (22 Occurrences)
... or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops
his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. ...
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Blocking (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or
blocks. 3. (n.) Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily. ...
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Necessity (22 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Necessity (22 Occurrences). Matthew 18:7 Wo to the
world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity ...
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Stumbling-block (20 Occurrences)
... (ASV YLT). Matthew 18:7 Wo to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for
there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but ...
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Tools (3 Occurrences)
... sand. But sawing stone was a very laborious process, and this was one reason
why the ancients preferred stone in large blocks. These ...
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Stumbling (51 Occurrences)
... (WEB WEY ASV YLT NAS). John 16:1 "These things I have spoken to you in order to
clear stumbling-blocks out of your path. (WEY NAS). Romans 9:32 Why? ...
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Images (158 Occurrences)
... These images may be shapeless blocks, or symmetrically carved figures, or
objects of Nature, such as animals, sun, moon, stars, etc. ...
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Bible Concordance

Blocks (9 Occurrences)

Matthew 13:41 the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,
(YLT NAS)

Matthew 18:7 Wo to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but wo to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!
(YLT NAS)

Luke 17:1 And he said unto the disciples, 'It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo 'to him' through whom they come;
(YLT NAS)

1 Kings 5:17 The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
(See NIV)

1 Kings 6:7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
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1 Kings 7:9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
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Jeremiah 6:21 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Lamentations 3:9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
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Ezekiel 14:3 Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them?
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Blocks

Related Terms

Stumbling-blocks (8 Occurrences)

Quarries (4 Occurrences)

Block (22 Occurrences)

Blocking (1 Occurrence)

Necessity (22 Occurrences)

Stumbling-block (20 Occurrences)

Tools (3 Occurrences)

Stumbling (51 Occurrences)

Images (158 Occurrences)