Lexicon / H4384
מַכְשֵׁלָה
makh.she.lah
  • ruins
  • overthrown mass
  • stumbling-block

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: ruins

1) overthrown mass, stumbling-block, something overthrown, decay, ruin

1a) thing overthrown (figurative of kingdom)

1b) stumbling-block (of idols)

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: overthrown mass; stumbling-block

Root √כשׁל: כָּשַׁל vb stumble stagger totter Qal stumble by means of at, over, something (lit.) totter Niph stumble be tottering feeble . Pi . only apparent Hiph cause to stumble make feeble weak . Hoph and let them be ones who have stumbled before thee and let them be ones overthrown before thee . either, i.e. regard them as such, or .

מַכְשֵׁלָה n.f overthrown mass stumbling-block . 1.. 2.