Lexical 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. |
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