Strong's Lexicon makshelah: Stumbling block, downfall, obstacle Original Word: מכשלה NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kashal Definition something overthrown, a stumbling block NASB Translation ruins (2). Brown-Driver-Briggs מַכְשֵׁלָה noun feminine 1. overthrown mass. 2 stumbling-block; — 1 figurative of kingdom Isaiah 3:6. 2 plural הַמַּכְשֵׁלוֺת Zephaniah 1:3 stumbling-blocks = idols (compare מִכְשׁוֺל 2c), but rather dubious; We thinks a gloss. SchwZAW x. (1890), 169 reads וְכִשַּׁלְתִּי and I will cause the wicked to stumble. I. כשׁף (√ of following; compare Arabic Strong's Exhaustive Concordance ruin, stumbling-block Feminine from kashal; a stumbling-block, but only figuratively (fall, enticement (idol)) -- ruin, stumbling-block. see HEBREW kashal Forms and Transliterations וְהַמַּכְשֵׁל֖וֹת וְהַמַּכְשֵׁלָ֥ה והמכשלה והמכשלות vehammachsheLah vehammachsheLot wə·ham·maḵ·šê·lāh wə·ham·maḵ·šê·lō·wṯ wəhammaḵšêlāh wəhammaḵšêlōwṯLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Isaiah 3:6 HEB: תִּֽהְיֶה־ לָּ֑נוּ וְהַמַּכְשֵׁלָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את תַּ֥חַת NAS: And these ruins will be under KJV: be thou our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand: INT: shall be our ruler become ruins likewise will be under Zephaniah 1:3 2 Occurrences |
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cut off, cut up, Syriac 
to pray (literally probably to cut oneself, see