ΔΥΣΚΟΛΟΝ, δυσκολον
DYSKOLON, dyskolon
Sounds Like: DYS-ko-lon
Translations: difficult, hard, troublesome, a difficult thing
From the root: ΔΥΣΚΟΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word means difficult, hard, or troublesome. It describes something that is not easy to do, understand, or deal with. It is a compound word formed from the prefix ΔΥΣ- (dys-), meaning 'bad' or 'difficult', and ΚΟΛΟΣ (kolos), meaning 'food' or 'fodder', though in this context it relates to 'cutting' or 'hindering'.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G1418 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Mark — 10:24
Ignatius of Antioch
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 4:72
- Book 5 — 2:139
- Book 6 — 3:43, 10:203
- Book 8 — 1:7, 2:26, 5:138, 8:220
- Book 11 — 4:96
- Book 14 — 4:65
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 8:26
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 15:80
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 20:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Mark — 10:24
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΥΣΚΟΛΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΔΥΣΚΟΛΑ — difficultly, with difficulty, hard, difficult things, a difficult thing
- ΔΥΣΚΟΛΟΙΣ — (to) difficult, (to) hard, (to) troublesome, (to) harsh
- ΔΥΣΚΟΛΟΣ — difficult, hard, troublesome, hard to please, ill-tempered
- ΔΥΣΚΟΛΟΥ — (of) difficult, (of) hard, (of) troublesome, (of) burdensome
- ΔΥΣΚΟΛΩ — with difficulty, hardly, scarcely, (to) with difficulty
- ΔΥΣΚΟΛΩΝ — of difficult things, of hard things, of troublesome things
- ΔΥΣΚΟΛΩΣ — with difficulty, hardly, scarcely
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