King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1422
Transliteration: dyskolos
Phonetic Spelling: (doo'-kol-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a sinking, setting
Meaning: a sinking, setting
δύσκολος, δύσκολόν (κόλον, food);
Word Summary
dyskolos: a sinking, setting
Original Word: δύσκολοςTransliteration: dyskolos
Phonetic Spelling: (doo'-kol-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a sinking, setting
Meaning: a sinking, setting
Strong's Concordance
difficultFrom 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: 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.