Proskomma means “offence” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4348 — mikvah (“that burneth”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4348 πρόσκομμα (proskomma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. proskomma (pros'-kom-mah) n. 1. a stub 2. (figuratively) occasion of apostasy It has 17 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include offence, stumbled, and occasion. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
proskomma (pros'-kom-mah) n. 1. a stub 2. (figuratively) occasion of apostasy [from G4350] KJV: offence, stumbling(-block, (-stone)) Root(s): G4350
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stumbling block
Usage: πρόσ-κομμα, -τος, τό (προσκόπτω), [in LXX: Exo.23:33 34:12 (מוֹקֵשׁ), Isa.8:14 (נֶגֶף), Jdth.8:22, Sir.17:25, al. ;] __(a) a stumble, stumbling: λίθος προσκόμματος (= נֶגֶף אֶבֶן, Isa, l.with), figuratively, Rom.9:32-33, 1Pe.2:8" (LXX) ; __(b) = προσκοπή, an occasion of stumbling, a stumbling-block: metaphorically, Rom.14:13, 20, 1Co.8:9 (Plut.).† SYN.: σκάνδαλον (cf. Cremer, 752 f.) (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render proskomma, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4348 (πρόσκομμα) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And they shall not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me; for if thou shouldest serve their gods, these will be an offense to thee.
take heed to thyself, lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, into which thou art entering, lest it be to thee a stumbling block among you.
And if thou shalt trust in him, he shall be to thee for a sanctuary; and ye shall not come against him as against a stumbling stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And the slaughter of our brethren, and the captivity of the country, and the desolation of our inheritance, will he turn upon our heads among the Gentiles, wheresoever we shall be in bondage; and we shall be an offense and a reproach to all them that possess us.
Return unto the Lord, and forsake thy sins, Make thy prayer before his face, and offend less.
For dreams have deceived many, And they have failed that put their trust in them.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4348.
And they shall not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me; for if thou shouldest serve their gods, these will be an offense to thee.
take heed to thyself, lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, into which thou art entering, lest it be to thee a stumbling block among you.
And if thou shalt trust in him, he shall be to thee for a sanctuary; and ye shall not come against him as against a stumbling stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit.
and they that cause men to sin by a word: and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offense, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.
And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to thyself: thou hadst a whore’s face, thou didst become shameless toward all.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
And the slaughter of our brethren, and the captivity of the country, and the desolation of our inheritance, will he turn upon our heads among the Gentiles, wheresoever we shall be in bondage; and we shall be an offense and a reproach to all them that possess us.
Return unto the Lord, and forsake thy sins, Make thy prayer before his face, and offend less.
For dreams have deceived many, And they have failed that put their trust in them.
Eat, as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; And devour not, lest thou be hated.
As his ways are plain unto the holy; So are they stumbling blocks unto the wicked.
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Proskomma (Strong's G4348) is a Greek word most simply glossed "offence". proskomma (pros'-kom-mah) n. 1. a stub 2. (figuratively) occasion of apostasy
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's G4348 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4348 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as offence, stumbled, and occasion. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4348, with linked reader references where each row is available.