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# כִּשָּׁלוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3783

**a stumbling** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a stumbling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3783/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּשָּׁלוֹן: stumbling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3783/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a stumbling; fig. = calamity Pr 16:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: stumbling (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 16:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.18/#tree)

לִפְנֵי־שֶׁ֥בֶר גָּא֑וֹן וְלִפְנֵ֥י כִ֝שָּׁל֗וֹן גֹּ֣בַהּ רֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\] before breaking pride and \[is\] before stumbling haughtiness of.spirit

*JPS 1917:* Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3783/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).