Strong’s H4384 · Hebrew
מַכְשֵׁלָה
makshêlâh · mak-shay-law'
Origin feminine from כָּשַׁל (H3782);
Meaning a stumbling-block, but only figuratively (fall, enticement (idol))
In the King James Version ruin, stumbling-block.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Isaiah 3:6When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
- Zephaniah 1:3I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.