Stumbling
מִכְשׁוֹלStrong’s H4383mikhshol (mikh-shol)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mikhshol is the Hebrew word usually translated “stumbling block”, “stumbling block of” and “stumbling of”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.”
Meaning
- A stumbling, means or occasion of stumbling, stumbling blockstumbling, fall · means or occasion of stumbling, stumbling block
How it's translated
- a stumbling block 3
- and stumbling block of 3
- and stumbling of 1
- stumbling 1
- obstacle 1
- stumbling blocks 1
- an obstacle 1
- stumbling block of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 8
- Isaiah 2
- Leviticus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 25:31That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
- Psalms 119:165Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
- Isaiah 8:14And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 57:14And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
- Jeremiah 6:21Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
- Ezekiel 3:20Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Hebrew dictionary
מִכְשׁוֹל mikhshol · stumbling
1) a stumbling, means or occasion of stumbling, stumbling block 1a) stumbling, fall 1b) means or occasion of stumbling, stumbling block
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.