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title: כִּשָּׁלוֹן — a stumbling · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּשָּׁלוֹן (3783), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: a stumbling. BDB 1906: stumbling. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּשָּׁלוֹן

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«כִּשָּׁלוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a stumbling** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3783 · **BDB:** כִּשָּׁלוֹן

### Glosses

stumbling (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

a stumbling [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3783/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

stumbling [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3783/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a stumbling; fig. = calamity Pr 16:18.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כִּשָּׁלוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3783/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 16:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.18/)

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לִפְנֵי־שֶׁ֥בֶר גָּא֑וֹן וְלִפְנֵ֥י כִ֝שָּׁל֗וֹן גֹּ֣בַהּ רֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\] before breaking pride and \[is\] before stumbling haughtiness of.spirit

*JPS 1917:* Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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