Definition

a stumbling-block, literally or figuratively (obstacle, enticement (specifically an idol), scruple)

Etymology

or מִכְשֹׁל; masculine from H3782 (כָּשַׁל);

Where the KJV renders it

• caused to fall
• offence
• (no-) thing offered
• ruin
• stumbling-block

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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