Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4384
מַכְשֵׁלָה
makshelahmak-shay-law'
ruins
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: makshêlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4384is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4384
a stumbling-block, but only figuratively (fall, enticement (idol))
The King James renders it: ruin, stumbling-block.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
makshelah is rendered "ruins". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 3:6A 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.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
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.”
Isaiah 3:6וְהַמַּכְשֵׁלָ֥ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the heap of ruins1
- and the stumbling-blocks1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְהַמַּכְשֵׁלָ֥ה1
- וְהַמַּכְשֵׁל֖וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Td/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Td/Ncfsa
Isaiah
one use
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.”
- וְהַמַּכְשֵׁלָ֥הvehamakhshelahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the heap of ruins
Zephaniah
one use
“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.
- וְהַמַּכְשֵׁל֖וֹתvehamakhshelotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the stumbling-blocks
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.