מַכְשֵׁלָה
makshêlâh · H4384 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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ruin
A building that has been destroyed or that has collapsed
ExamplesIsaiah 3:6 When a man lays hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, “You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler! And these ruins will be under your authority,”
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stumbling, failure
Literally: to stumble; hence: process by which humans do not live up to the expectations others have of them
ExamplesZephaniah 1:3 “I will remove human and animal life; I will remove the birds of the sky And the fish of the sea, And the ruins along with the wicked; And I will eliminate mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זֹאתthis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סוּףto come to an end, to be destroyed 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדhand, power 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Impact002001001024
- מַכְשֵׁלָה denotes a ruin or a place of downfall, as in Isaiah 3:6's picture of national collapse: "let this ruin be under your hand," a devastating impact on the nation.
- Fail002003003013
- The word shares the sense of causing failure or downfall with its related form מִכְשׁוֹל (mikshôwl, H4383), describing a ruinous obstacle that brings someone or something down.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4384. makshelah מַכְשֵׁלָה noun feminine 1. overthrown mass. 2 stumbling-block; — 1…
מַכְשֵׁלָה noun feminine 1. overthrown mass.
2 stumbling-block; —
1 figurative of kingdom Isa 3:6.
2 plural הַמַּכְשֵׁלוֺת Zep 1:3 stumbling-blocks = idols (compare מִכְשׁוֺל 2c), but rather dubious; We thinks a gloss. SchwZAW x. (1890), 169 reads וְכִשַּׁלְתִּי and I will cause the wicked to stumble.
I. כשׁף (√ of following; compare Arabic cut off, cut up, Syriac to pray (literally probably to cut oneself, see 1Ki 18:28): so RsJ Phil. xiv. 125, 126 NöZMG 1886, 723; according to RS כֶּשֶׁף is properly herbs etc. shredded into a magic brew).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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