Makhshelah מַכְשֵׁלָה

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Makhshelah (Hebrew מַכְשֵׁלָה, Strong's H4384) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “ruins”. It occurs 2 times in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) overthrown mass, stumbling-block, something overthrown, decay, ruin
1a) thing overthrown (figurative of kingdom)
1b) stumbling-block (of idols)

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

KJV	ruin (1), stumblingblocks (1)
BSB	heap of rubble (1), idols (1)

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

Isaiah 3:6
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

Zephaniah 1:3
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 land, saith the Lord.“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

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.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).