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Stumbling

כִּשָּׁלוֹןStrong’s H3783

kishshalon (kish-sha-lon)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Kishshalon is the Hebrew word usually translated “stumbling”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
Proverbs 16:18 KJV
Meaning
  1. A stumbling, a fall, a calamity
How it's translated
  • stumbling 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Proverbs 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    כִּשָּׁלוֹן kishshalon · stumbling

    a stumbling, a fall, a calamity

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “stumbling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    STUMBLING, participle present

    tense Tripping; erring; puzzling.

      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.