kashal · stumble

What it means

kashal (כָּשַׁל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stumble”.

Stagger and fall.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To lose one's balance while walking until one falls.
2. To grow weak.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To stumble, stagger and fall; also to give way, lose strength. In the causative, to make stumble. It is used a great deal in a figurative sense: falling into evil or falling in defeat.

• Enemies stumble and fall Psalms 27:2Psalms 9:3
• The righteous falls and rises Proverbs 24:16Proverbs 4:12
• “Young men stumbling, will stumble” Isaiah 40:30
• Stumbling in iniquity Hosea 14:1Hosea 14:9Malachi 2:8
• Giving way: knees, strength Psalms 109:24Nehemiah 4:10

How we translate it

“Stumble” 24 times, “will stumble” 18, “stumbled” 5, also in Daniel 11 where it is falling in battle; “has faltered” (Nehemiah 4:10) or “give way” (Psalm 109:24) when it is strength that fails. The image of the foot that stumbles is kept also when sin is meant, so that the reader sees the parallel with the way: “the ways of YHWH {are} upright… but transgressors stumble in them” (Hosea 14:9).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stumble ×24
• will stumble ×18
• stumbled ×5
• who stumbled ×4
• has stumbled ×3
• stumbles ×3
• has faltered ×2
• stumbling ×2
• give way ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×11
• Jeremiah×11
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×6
• Hosea×6
• Nahum×2
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Leviticus 26:37

  And they will stumble, one over another, as before the sword, when no one is pursuing; and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

• 1 Samuel 2:4

  The bow of the mighty is broken, and those who stumbled have girded on strength.

• 2 Chronicles 25:8

  But if you go, do it, be strong for the war: Elohim will make you stumble before the enemy; for there is power in Elohim to help and to make stumble.”

• 2 Chronicles 28:15

  Then the men who had been designated by name rose up and took charge of the captives; and all the naked among them they clothed from the spoil; they clothed them, gave them sandals, gave them food and drink, anointed them, led them on donkeys, all who stumbled, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, beside their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

• 2 Chronicles 28:23

  He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had struck him, and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram, they help them, to them I will sacrifice, and they will help me.” But they were for him to make him stumble, and all Israel.

• Nehemiah 4:10

  And Judah said, “The strength of the carrier has faltered, and the rubble is much, and we will not be able to build on the wall.”

• Job 4:4

  The one who stumbled your words have raised up, and buckling knees you have made firm.

• Psalms 9:3

  When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before you.

• Psalms 27:2

  When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies —they stumbled and fell.

• Psalms 31:10

  For my life is spent in sorrow and my years in groaning; my strength has faltered because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.

• Psalms 64:8

  And their own tongue makes them stumble against themselves; all who see them shake their heads.

• Psalms 105:37

  And he brought them out with silver and gold, and there was no one among his tribes who stumbled.

• Psalms 107:12

  So he humbled their heart with hardship; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

• Psalms 109:24

  My knees give way from fasting, and my flesh has grown lean, without fat.

• Proverbs 4:12

  When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.

• Proverbs 4:16

  For they do not sleep unless they have done evil, and their sleep is robbed unless they make someone stumble.

• Proverbs 4:19

  The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

• Proverbs 24:16

  for seven times the righteous falls and rises, but the wicked stumble into evil.

• Proverbs 24:17

  When your enemy falls do not rejoice, and when he stumbles do not let your heart be glad,

• Isaiah 3:8

  For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their tongue and their deeds are against YHWH, to rebel against the eyes of his glory.

• Isaiah 5:27

  None is weary and none stumbles in it; none slumbers or sleeps; the belt of its hips is not loosened, nor is the strap of its sandals broken.

• Isaiah 8:15

  And many will stumble over them; they will fall and be broken, and be snared and be caught.”

• Isaiah 28:13

  And the word of YHWH will be to them command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there, so that they will go and stumble backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be captured.

• Isaiah 31:3

  And Egypt is a human being, and not El; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And YHWH will stretch out his hand, and the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end.

• Isaiah 35:3

  Strengthen the drooping hands, and the stumbling knees make firm.

• Isaiah 40:30

  Youths will grow tired and grow weary, and young men stumbling, will stumble;

• Isaiah 59:10

  We grope like the blind for the wall, and like those without eyes we grope; we stumble at noon as in the twilight; among the robust we are like the dead.

• Isaiah 59:14

  And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off; for truth has stumbled in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

• Isaiah 63:13

  who made them go through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, and they did not stumble?”

• Jeremiah 6:15

  Were they ashamed because they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, and they did not know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall; at the time I punish them they will stumble, says YHWH.

• Jeremiah 6:21

  Therefore thus says YHWH: “Look, I am placing before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble over them, fathers and sons together; neighbor and his friend will perish.”

• Jeremiah 8:12

  Were they ashamed because they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, and to blush they did not know. Therefore they will fall among those who fall; at the time of their punishment they will stumble, says YHWH.

• Jeremiah 18:15

  For my people has forgotten me; to what is vain they burn incense, and they have made them stumble in their ways, the ancient paths, to walk in byways, a road not built up,

• Jeremiah 18:23

  But you, YHWH, know all their counsel against me for death; do not make expiation for their iniquity, and their sin from before you do not blot out; and let them be made to stumble before you; in the time of your anger act against them.

• Jeremiah 20:11

  But YHWH is with me like a dreadful mighty man; therefore my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail; they will be greatly ashamed, for they have not succeeded; their eternal ignominy will not be forgotten.

• Jeremiah 31:9

  With weeping they will come, and with supplications I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of water, on a straight road on which they will not stumble; for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

• Jeremiah 46:6

  Let not the swift flee, nor the mighty man escape! Northward, by the bank of the river Euphrates, they have stumbled and fallen.

• Jeremiah 46:12

  The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry has filled the earth; for mighty man against mighty man has stumbled; together they have fallen, both of them.

• Jeremiah 46:16

  He made many stumble; indeed, each one fell against his neighbor, and they said, “Get up, and let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, from before the sword of the oppressor.”

• Jeremiah 50:32

  And Insolence will stumble and fall, and there will be no one to raise it up; and I will kindle fire in its cities, and it will consume all that is around it.

And 22 more times.