Lexical Summary makshelah: something overthrown, a stumbling block Original Word: מַכְשֵׁלָהTransliteration: makshelah Phonetic Spelling: (mak-shay-law') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: something overthrown, a stumbling block Meaning: something overthrown, a stumbling block Strong's Concordance ruin, stumbling-block Feminine from kashal; a stumbling-block, but only figuratively (fall, enticement (idol)) -- ruin, stumbling-block. see HEBREW kashal Brown-Driver-Briggs H4384. makshelah מַכְשֵׁלָה noun feminine 1. overthrown mass. 2 stumbling-block; — 1 figurative of kingdom Isaiah 3:6. 2 plural הַמַּכְשֵׁלוֺת Zephaniah 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 1 Kings 18:28): so RsJ Phil. xiv. 125, 126 NöZMG 1886, 723; according to RS כֶּשֶׁף is properly herbs etc. shredded into a magic brew). |
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