Lexicon duskolos: difficult Original Word: δύσκολος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: duskolos Phonetic Spelling: (doo'-kol-os) Short Definition: difficult Definition: difficult, hard; of persons: hard to please. HELPS word-Studies 1422 dýskolos (an adjective, derived from 1418 /dys-, "difficult" and kolon, "food") – properly, difficult (problematic) to digest; (figuratively) disagreeable, like when food "doesn't go down well." It is used only in Mk 10:24. Thayer's STRONGS NT 1422: δύσκολοςδύσκολος, δύσκολόν ( κόλον, food); 1. properly, hard to find agreeable food for, fastidious about food. 2. difficult to please, always finding fault; (Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others). 3. universally, difficult (Xenophon, oec. 15, 10 ἡ γεωργία δύσκολος ἐστι μαθεῖν): πῶς δύσκολόν ἐστι, followed by an accusative with an infinitive, Mark 10:24.
Strong's difficult From dus- and kolon (food); properly, fastidious about eating (peevish), i.e. (genitive case) impracticable -- hard. see GREEK dus- |
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