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# מַכְשֵׁלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4384

**overthrown mass** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

overthrown mass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4384/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַכְשֵׁלָה: n.f. overthrown mass stumbling-block [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4384/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. 1. overthrown mass. 2. stumbling-block;— fig. of kingdom Is 3:6. pl. הַמַּכְשֵׁלוֹת Zp 1:3 stumbling-blocks = idols (cf. מִכְשׁוֹל 2 c), but rather dub.; We thinks a gloss. Schwally ZAW x. (1890), 169 reads וְכִשַּׁלְתִּי and I will cause the wicked to stumble.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 3:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.6/#tree)

כִּֽי־יִתְפֹּ֨שׂ אִ֤ישׁ בְּאָחִיו֙ בֵּ֣ית אָבִ֔יו שִׂמְלָ֣ה לְכָ֔ה קָצִ֖ין תִּֽהְיֶה־לָּ֑נוּ וְהַמַּכְשֵׁלָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את תַּ֥חַת יָדֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.will.seize a.person (in) brother his the.house his.father his a.cloak \[belongs\].to you a.ruler you.will.be our and the.heap of.ruins (the) this \[will.be\].under hand your

*JPS 1917:* For a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father: 'Thou hast a mantle, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand.'

[Zephaniah 1:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.3/#tree)

אָסֵ֨ף אָדָ֜ם וּבְהֵמָ֗ה אָסֵ֤ף עוֹף־הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ וּדְגֵ֣י הַיָּ֔ם וְהַמַּכְשֵׁל֖וֹת אֶת־הָרְשָׁעִ֑ים וְהִכְרַתִּ֣י אֶת־הָאָדָ֗ם מֵעַ֛ל פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָ֖ה נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* I.will.bring.to.an.end human.being and animal I.will.bring.to.an.end the.bird\[s\] of the.heavens and the.fish(es) of the.sea and the stumbling-blocks with the.wicked \[people\] and I.will.cut.off (et) (the) humankind from on the.surface of the.ground the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* I will consume man and beast, I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the earth, saith the LORD.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4384/): 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).