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Isaiah 8:15
“And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
כָּשַׁלkâshal · kaw-shal'
H3782 · Hebrew
H3782 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- bereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, [idiom] utterly, be weak.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- כָ֥שְׁלוּ — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 65 times in the Hebrew Bible.Leviticus 26:371 Samuel 2:42 Chronicles 25:82 Chronicles 25:82 Chronicles 28:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כָּשַׁל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.