כָּשַׁל kashal
Hebrew word for “to stumble” · Strong’s H3782 · used 62 times in 58 verses
Meaning
1) to stumble, stagger, totter;
How it is translated
Glosses given for kashal in context, with how often each is used:
- will stumble 24
- stumble 4
- stumbling 3
- stumbled 3
- one who stumbles 3
- one who stumbled 2
- has failed 2
- have staggered 2
- has stumbled 2
- have stumbled 2
- have caused to stumble 2
- those who stumble 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 11 | 0.6 | |
| Jeremiah | 11 | 0.5 | |
| Psalms | 7 | 0.4 | |
| Daniel | 6 | 1.0 | |
| Hosea | 6 | 2.5 | |
| Proverbs | 5 | 0.7 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Lamentations | 2 | 1.3 | |
| Ezekiel | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Nahum | 2 | 3.6 | |
| Leviticus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 |
Also in 4 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Daniel 11 (6), Proverbs 4 (3), Jeremiah 46 (3), 2 Chronicles 28 (2), Proverbs 24 (2), Isaiah 59 (2), Jeremiah 6 (2), Jeremiah 18 (2), Hosea 14 (2), Leviticus 26 (1)
Forms
- יכשׁלו 14
- כשׁלו 6
- וכשׁלו 5
- כושׁל 5
- כשׁל 3
- וכשׁל 3
- כשׁלה 2
- ונכשׁלו 2
- ונכשׁלים 1
- יכשׁילך 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with kashal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- נָפַל naphal “to fall” 13
- עָזַר azar “to help” 5
- הֶם hem “them” 9
- אַיִן ayin “nothing” 7
- יָכֹל yakhol “be able” 5
- רַב rav “many” 6
- עֵת et “time” 5
- אֹיֵב oyev “enemy” 5
- קוּם qum “to arise” 6
- כֹּחַ koach “strength” 4
- בֶּרֶךְ berekh “knee” 3
- גִּבּוֹר gibbor “mighty man” 4
Key verses
The verses using kashal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Proverbs 4:19 — The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
- Isaiah 3:8 — For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
- Isaiah 35:3 — Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
- 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…
- 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…
- Jeremiah 20:11 — But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they…
- 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…
- Daniel 11:35 — And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time…
- Hosea 14:1 — O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- Hosea 14:9 — Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but…
- Zechariah 12:8 — In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be…
- Malachi 2:8 — But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
See all 58 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.