Kashal כָּשַׁל

Kashal (Hebrew כָּשַׁל, Strong's H3782) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to stumble”. It occurs 62 times in 58 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Kashal, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

• Leviticus 26:37
  And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 2:4
  The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 25:8
  But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
• 2 Chronicles 28:15
  And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
• 2 Chronicles 28:23
  For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.Since Damascus had defeated him, he sacrificed to their gods and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 4:10
  And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”

Job

• Job 4:4
  Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

Psalms

• Psalm 9:3
  When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
• Psalm 27:2
  When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
• Psalm 31:10
  For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
• Psalm 64:8
  So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
• Psalm 105:37
  He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.
• Psalm 107:12
  Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
• Psalm 109:24
  My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 4:12
  When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.
• Proverbs 4:16
  For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
• Proverbs 4:19
  The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
• Proverbs 24:16
  For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
• Proverbs 24:17
  Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

Isaiah

• Isaiah 3:8
  For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
• Isaiah 5:27
  None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
• Isaiah 8:15
  And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”
• Isaiah 28:13
  But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
• Isaiah 31:3
  Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
• Isaiah 35:3
  Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
• Isaiah 40:30
  Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
• Isaiah 59:10
  We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
• Isaiah 59:14
  And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.
• Isaiah 63:13
  That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 6:15
  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 6:21
  Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”
• Jeremiah 8:12
  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 18:15
  Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
• Jeremiah 18:23
  Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
• Jeremiah 20:11
  But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
• Jeremiah 31:9
  They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
• Jeremiah 46:6
  Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.
• Jeremiah 46:12
  The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”
• Jeremiah 46:16
  He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.’
• Jeremiah 50:32
  And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”

Lamentations

• Lamentations 1:14
  The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
• Lamentations 5:13
  They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 33:12
  Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
• Ezekiel 36:15
  Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.I will no longer allow the taunts of the nations to be heard against you, and you will no longer endure the reproach of the peoples or cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”

Daniel

• Daniel 11:14
  And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.In those times many will rise up against the king of the South. Violent ones among your own people will exalt themselves in fulfillment of the vision, but they will fail.
• Daniel 11:19
  Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be no more.
• Daniel 11:33
  And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.
• Daniel 11:34
  Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.Now when they fall, they will be granted a little help, but many will join them insincerely.
• Daniel 11:35
  And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.Some of the wise will fall, so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.
• Daniel 11:41
  He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.He will also invade the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall. But these will be delivered from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the leaders of the Ammonites.

Hosea

• Hosea 4:5
  Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
• Hosea 5:5
  And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
• Hosea 14:1
  O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
• Hosea 14:9
  Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

Nahum

• Nahum 2:5
  He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.
• Nahum 3:3
  The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—

Zechariah

• Zechariah 12:8
  In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.

Malachi

• Malachi 2:8
  But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).