michshol · stumbling block

What it means

michshol (מִכְשׁוֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stumbling block”.

A stumbling block: something that makes someone fall; an obstacle.

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. Something that makes someone fall, or leads him into sin.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• stumbling block ×10
• stumbling blocks ×2
• offense ×1
• stumble over ×1

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×8

• Leviticus 19:14

  You shall not curse a deaf person and before a blind person you shall not put a stumbling block; but you shall fear your Elohim. I am YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 25:31

  this shall not be to you a stumbling block or an offense of heart for my lord: to have shed blood without cause or for my lord to have saved himself. And when YHWH does good to my lord, remember your servant.”

• Psalms 119:165

  Great peace is for those who love your instruction, and there is no stumbling block for them.

• Isaiah 8:14

  And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone to strike against and a rock to stumble over for both houses of Israel, a snare and a trap for the inhabitant of Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 57:14

  And he will say, “Level, level, clear the way; remove the stumbling block from the way of my people.”

• 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.”

• Ezekiel 3:20

  And when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die; because you did not warn him, for his sin he will die, and his acts of righteousness that he did will not be remembered, but his blood I will require from your hand.

• Ezekiel 7:19

  Their silver into the streets they will throw, and their gold will be as impurity; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of YHWH; their appetite they will not satisfy, and their insides they will not fill, for it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

• Ezekiel 14:3

  “Son of man, these men have taken up their idols into their heart, and the stumbling block of their iniquity they have put before their face. Should I let myself be consulted at all by them?

• Ezekiel 14:4

  Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Any man of the house of Israel who takes up his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet, I, YHWH, will answer him in it according to the multitude of his idols,

• Ezekiel 14:7

  For any man of the house of Israel, or of the resident aliens who reside in Israel, who separates himself from following me and takes up his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet to consult me for himself, I, YHWH, will answer him myself.

• Ezekiel 18:30

  Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, each according to his ways, declares Adonai YHWH. Turn back, and turn others away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be a stumbling block for you.

• Ezekiel 21:15

  so that the heart may melt and the stumbling blocks may multiply; against all their gates I have set the brandishing of the sword. Ah! It is made for lightning, honed for slaughter.

• Ezekiel 44:12

  Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became for the house of Israel a stumbling block of iniquity, therefore I have raised my hand against them, declares Adonai YHWH, and they shall bear their iniquity.