מַכְשֵׁלָה
machshela · stumbling, ruin
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4384 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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machshela (מַכְשֵׁלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stumbling, ruin”.
A stumbling, a ruin, a cause of falling.
How to say it
mach·she·la
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
- A heap of what has fallen down, a ruin.
- What makes others fall into evil, or those who fall into it.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- ruin ×1
- stumbling blocks ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 3:6
When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, “You have a cloak; you shall be ruler for us, and this ruin shall be under your hand,”
- Zephaniah 1:3
I will gather human being and livestock; I will gather the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off human beings from upon the face of the ground, declares YHWH.