To stumble
כָּשַׁלStrong’s H3782kashal (ka-shal)
Appears in 58 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kashal is the Hebrew word usually translated “stumble”, “stumbled” and “it has failed”. It appears in 58 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.”
Meaning
- To stumble, stagger, totter(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to be made to stumble · (Piel) bereave
How it's translated
- they will stumble 10
- and they will stumble 6
- they stumble 4
- they stumbled 3
- and he will stumble 3
- stumbled 2
- it has failed 2
- stumbling 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 11
- Isaiah 10
- Psalms 7
- Daniel 6
- Proverbs 5
- Hosea 4
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:19In contextThen he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
- Daniel 11:33In contextAnd they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
- Daniel 11:34In contextNow when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
- Daniel 11:35In contextAnd some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
- Daniel 11:41In contextHe shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
- Zechariah 12:8In contextIn that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
All 58 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כָּשַׁל kashal · to stumble
1) to stumble, stagger, totter 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to stumble 1a2) to totter 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to stumble 1b2) to be tottering, be feeble 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to stumble, bring injury or ruin to, overthrow 1c2) to make feeble, make weak 1d) (Hophal) to be made to stumble 1e) (Piel) bereave
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stumble” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STUMBLE, verb intransitive
[This word is probably from a root that signifies to stop or to strike, and may be allied to stammer.]
- To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; applied to any animal.“The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble” Proverbs 4:19
- To err; to slide into a crime or an error.“He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1” 1 John 2:10
- To strike upon without design; to fall on; to light on by chance.
All definitions and other forms of “stumble”
STUMBLE, verb transitive
- To obstruct in progress; to cause to trip or stop.
- To confound; to puzzle; to put to a nonplus; to perplex.
STUMBLE, noun
- A trip in walking or running.
- A blunder; a failure.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.