What does Kashal mean?

Kashal (כָּשַׁל, Strong's H3782) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall. The King James Bible translates it as 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, × utterly, be weak.

What is the Strong's number for Kashal?

The Strong's number for Kashal (כָּשַׁל) is H3782. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Kashal (Strong’s H3782): Meaning in the Bible

Kashal (כָּשַׁל) is the Hebrew word numbered H3782 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall. In the King James Bible it is translated bereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause.

כָּשַׁל

kâshal · Hebrew

Strong’s H3782 · kaw-shal'

Original wordכָּשַׁל
Transliterationkâshal
Pronunciationkaw-shal'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH3782
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

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

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

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, × utterly, be weak. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Kashal appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kashal (H3782) stands behind 62 English renderings in 58 verses across 16 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (11), Jeremiah (11), Psalms (7).

How the King James Bible renders Kashal, by count

fall23 of 62 (37 percent)
stumble15 of 62 (24 percent)
down4 of 62 (6 percent)
feeble4 of 62 (6 percent)
stumbled3 of 62 (5 percent)
fallen2 of 62 (3 percent)

Three places to read Kashal

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.
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.
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.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kashal in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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