כָּשַׁל kâshal

Meaning

to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall

In the King James Version: 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.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Leviticus 26:37 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 2:4 The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.
• 2 Chronicles 25:8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
• 2 Chronicles 28:15 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 He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he 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 4:10 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 4:4 Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
• Psalms 9:3 When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
• Psalms 27:2 When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
• Psalms 31:10 For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
• Psalms 64:8 They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
• Psalms 105:37 He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.
• Psalms 107:12 He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
• Psalms 109:24 My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
• Proverbs 4:12 When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.
• Proverbs 4:16 For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
• Proverbs 4:19 But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
• Proverbs 24:16 For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
• Proverbs 24:17 Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
• Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
• Isaiah 5:27 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 Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”
• Isaiah 28:13 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 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 the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
• Isaiah 40:30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
• Isaiah 59:10 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 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 who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?
• Jeremiah 6:15 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”
• Jeremiah 46:16 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 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 1:14 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 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
• Ezekiel 33:12 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 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 11:14 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 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 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 fall, they will be granted a little help, but many will join them insincerely.
• Daniel 11:35 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 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 4:5 You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
• Hosea 5:5 Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
• Hosea 14:1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
• Hosea 14:9 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 2:5 He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.
• Nahum 3:3 Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—
• Zechariah 12:8 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 2:8 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.