Kâshal — H3782
H3782 · Hebrew — כשל
Pronunciation: kaw-shal'
Definition
verb
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
- to stumble, stagger, totter
- (Qal)
- to stumble
- to totter
- (Niphal)
- to stumble
- to be tottering, be feeble
- (Hiphil)
- to cause to stumble, bring injury or ruin to, overthrow
- to make feeble, make weak
- (Hophal) to be made to stumble
- (Piel) bereave
Usually translated as
fall, stumble, feeble, overthrown, be decayed, falling, ruin, ruined, be weak, bereave, cast down, fail, be, utterly
Origin
a primitive root
Greek equivalents
Occurrences
Kâshal occurs 62 times in 58 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (1), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Chronicles (3), Nehemiah (1), Job (1), Psalms (7), Proverbs (5), Isaiah (10), Jeremiah (11), Lamentations (2), Ezekiel (2), Daniel (6), Hosea (4), Nahum (2), Zechariah (1), Malachi (1)
- Leviticus 26:37 — And they shall fall (וְכָשְׁל֧וּ) one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
- 1 Samuel 2:4 — The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled (וְנִכְשָׁלִ֖ים) are girded with strength.
- 2 Chronicles 25:8 — But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall (יַכְשִֽׁילְךָ֤) before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
- 2 Chronicles 25:8 — But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down (וּלְהַכְשִֽׁיל).
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 — And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble (כּוֹשֵׁ֔ל) of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
- 2 Chronicles 28:23 — For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin (לְהַכְשִׁיל֖וֹ) of him, and of all Israel.
- Nehemiah 4:10 — And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed (כָּשַׁל֙), and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
- Job 4:4 — Thy words have upholden him that was falling (כּ֭וֹשֵׁל), and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
- Psalms 9:3 — When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall (יִכָּשְׁל֥וּ) and perish at thy presence.
- Psalms 27:2 — When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled (כָשְׁל֣וּ) and fell.
- Psalms 31:10 — For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth (כָּשַׁ֣ל) because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
- Psalms 64:8 — So they shall make their own tongue to fall (וַיַּכְשִׁיל֣וּהוּ) upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
- Psalms 105:37 — He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble (כּוֹשֵֽׁל) person among their tribes.
- Psalms 107:12 — Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down (כָּ֝שְׁל֗וּ), and there was none to help.
- Psalms 109:24 — My knees are weak (כָּשְׁל֣וּ) through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
- Proverbs 4:12 — When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble (תִכָּשֵֽׁל).
- Proverbs 4:16 — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall (יַכְשִֽׁילוּ).
- Proverbs 4:19 — The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble (יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ).
- Proverbs 24:16 — For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall (יִכָּשְׁל֥וּ) into mischief.
- Proverbs 24:17 — Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth (וּ֝בִכָּשְׁל֗וֹ):
- Isaiah 3:8 — For Jerusalem is ruined (כָשְׁלָה֙), and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
- Isaiah 5:27 — None shall be weary nor stumble (כּוֹשֵׁל֙) among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
- Isaiah 8:15 — And many among them shall stumble (וְכָ֥שְׁלוּ), and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
- Isaiah 28:13 — But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall (וְכָשְׁל֤וּ) backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
- Isaiah 31:3 — Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall (וְכָשַׁ֤ל), and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
- Isaiah 35:3 — Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble (כֹּשְׁל֖וֹת) knees.
- Isaiah 40:30 — Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall (יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ):
- Isaiah 40:30 — Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall (כָּשׁ֥וֹל):
- Isaiah 59:10 — We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble (כָּשַׁ֤לְנוּ) at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
- Isaiah 59:14 — And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen (כָשְׁלָ֤ה) in the street, and equity cannot enter.
- Isaiah 63:13 — That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble (יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ)?
- Jeremiah 6:15 — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down (יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ), saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 6:21 — Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall (וְכָ֣שְׁלוּ) upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
- Jeremiah 8:12 — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down (יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ), saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 18:15 — Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble (וַיַּכְשִׁל֤וּם) in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
- Jeremiah 18:23 — Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown (מֻכְשָׁלִים֙) before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
- Jeremiah 20:11 — But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble (יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ), and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
- Jeremiah 31:9 — They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble (יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ): for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
- Jeremiah 46:6 — Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble (כָּשְׁל֖וּ), and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
- Jeremiah 46:12 — The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled (כָּשָׁ֔לוּ) against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
- Jeremiah 46:16 — He made many to fall (כּוֹשֵׁ֑ל), yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
- Jeremiah 50:32 — And the most proud shall stumble (וְכָשַׁ֤ל) and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
- Lamentations 1:14 — The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall (הִכְשִׁ֣יל), the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
- Lamentations 5:13 — They took the young men to grind, and the children fell (כָּשָֽׁלוּ) under the wood.
- Ezekiel 33:12 — Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall (יִכָּ֣שֶׁל) thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
- Ezekiel 36:15 — Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall (תַכְשִׁ֣לִי) any more, saith the Lord GOD.
- Daniel 11:14 — And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall (וְנִכְשָֽׁלוּ).
- Daniel 11:19 — Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble (וְנִכְשַׁ֥ל) and fall, and not be found.
- Daniel 11:33 — And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall (וְנִכְשְׁל֞וּ) by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
- Daniel 11:34 — Now when they shall fall (וּבְהִכָּ֣שְׁלָ֔ם), they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Strong's Lexicon — K