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STRONGS NUMBER G1422

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Word Summary
dyskolos: a sinking, setting
Original Word: δύσκολος
Transliteration: dyskolos
Phonetic Spelling: (doo'-kol-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a sinking, setting
Meaning: a sinking, setting
Strong's Concordance
difficult

From dus- and kolon (food); properly, fastidious about eating (peevish), i.e. (genitive case) impracticable -- hard.

see GREEK dus-

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1422: δύσκολος

δύσκολος, 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.



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