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STRONGS NUMBER H4383

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Word Summary
mikshol: a stumbling, means or occasion of stumbling, a stumbling block
Original Word: מִכְשׁוֹל
Transliteration: mikshol
Phonetic Spelling: (mik-shole')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a stumbling, means or occasion of stumbling, a stumbling block
Meaning: a stumbling, means or occasion of stumbling, a stumbling block
Strong's Concordance
caused to fall, offence, nothing offered, ruin, stumbling-block

Or mikshol {mik-shole'}; masculine from kashal; a stumbling-block, literally or figuratively (obstacle, enticement (specifically an idol), scruple) -- caused to fall, offence, X (no-)thing offered, ruin, stumbling-block.

see HEBREW kashal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4383. mikshol

מִכְשׁוֺל‎ noun masculineJeremiah 6:21 a stumbling, means or occasion of stumbling, stumbling-block; — ׳מ‎ absolute Isaiah 8:14 3t., מִכְשֹׁל‎ Leviticus 19:14; construct מִכְשׁוֺל‎ 1 Samuel 25:31 6t. Ezekiel; plural מִכְשֹׁלִים‎ Jeremiah 6:21 + Ezekiel 21:20 ᵑ0‎ (Co and others מֻכְשָׁלִים‎, see below); —

1 stumbling, מ ׳צוּר‎ Isaiah 8:14 (fig) a rock of stumbling (i.e. over which one stumbles); literal הַמִּכְשֹׁלִים הַרְבֵּה‎ Ezekiel 21:20 an abundance of stumblings, falls (si vera lectio; ᵐ5‎. οἱ ἀσθενοῦντες, apparently reading participle, compare Sm; so Co Da (as a possibility), i.e. מֻכְשָׁלִים‎

Hoph`al Participle of כשׁל‎ = those who have stumbled or been overthrown).

2 means, or occasion of stumbling, stumbling-block; a literal Leviticus 19:14.

b. figurative of misfortune, calamity Paslm Lev 119:165; in divine judgment Jeremiah 6:21; Ezekiel 3:20, as a hindrance to restoration of people Isaiah 57:14.

c. in ethical sense ׳מ עֲוֺנָם‎ Ezekiel 7:19 a stumbling-block of (i.e. occasioning) their iniquity, so 14:3-4, 7; 18:30; 44:12 (mostly with reference to idols.).

d. ׳מ לֵב‎ 1 Samuel 25:31 a stumbling-block of heart i.e. ground for remorse.





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