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Strong's H3782 כָּשַׁל (kashal)

Kashal means “cast down” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G3782 — opheile (“debt”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H3782
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 59
Books 16

Strong's H3782 Quick Answer

Strong's H3782 כָּשַׁל (kashal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. kashal (kaw-shal') v. 1. to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle) 2. (by implication) to falter, stumble, faint or fall It has 59 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include fall, stumble, through, falling, and falleth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
kashal (kaw-shal') v. 1. to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle) 2. (by implication) to falter, stumble, faint or fall
Usage
59 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
fall, stumble, through, falling, and falleth

Meaning and Definition

kashal (kaw-shal') v. 1. to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle) 2. (by implication) to falter, stumble, faint or fall [a primitive root] KJV: 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, X utterly, be weak.

Original Word
כָּשַׁל
Transliteration
kashal
Derivation
Root: כשׁל
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3782. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to stumble

Usage: 1) to stumble, stagger, totter 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to stumble 1a2) to totter 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to stumble 1b2) to be tottering, be feeble 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to stumble, bring injury or ruin to, overthrow 1c2) to make feeble, make weak 1d) (Hophal) to be made to stumble 1e) (Piel) bereave

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How Strong's H3782 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kashal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

fall Leviticus 26:37 22× stumble Proverbs 4:12 14× through Psalms 109:24 bereave Ezekiel 36:14 faint Isaiah 40:30 falleth Proverbs 24:17 falling Job 4:4

How Strong's H3782 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 59 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H3782 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H3782 in the Old Testament

59 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Leviticus 26:37 KJV

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.

1 Samuel 2:4 KJV

The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

2 Chronicles 25:8 KJV

But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

Usage Excerpts

First 59 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3782.

Leviticus 26:37 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Samuel 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
2 Chronicles 25:8 Old Testament, KJV
But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
2 Chronicles 28:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 28:23 Old Testament, KJV
For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
Nehemiah 4:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
Job 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Psalms 9:3 Old Testament, KJV
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
Psalms 27:2 Old Testament, KJV
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 31:10 Old Testament, KJV
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 64:8 Old Testament, KJV
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Psalms 105:37 Old Testament, KJV
He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
Psalms 107:12 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Psalms 109:24 Old Testament, KJV
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Proverbs 4:12 Old Testament, KJV
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Proverbs 4:16 Old Testament, KJV
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Proverbs 4:19 Old Testament, KJV
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 24:16 Old Testament, KJV
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs 24:17 Old Testament, KJV
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Isaiah 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 5:27 Old Testament, KJV
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
Isaiah 8:15 Old Testament, KJV
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Isaiah 28:13 Old Testament, KJV
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah 31:3 Old Testament, KJV
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
Isaiah 35:3 Old Testament, KJV
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Isaiah 40:30 Old Testament, KJV
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isaiah 59:10 Old Testament, KJV
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Isaiah 59:14 Old Testament, KJV
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Isaiah 63:13 Old Testament, KJV
That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
Jeremiah 6:15 Old Testament, KJV
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 6:21 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
Jeremiah 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 18:15 Old Testament, KJV
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
Jeremiah 18:23 Old Testament, KJV
Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
Jeremiah 20:11 Old Testament, KJV
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Jeremiah 31:9 Old Testament, KJV
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jeremiah 46:6 Old Testament, KJV
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 46:12 Old Testament, KJV
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
Jeremiah 46:16 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 50:32 Old Testament, KJV
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
Lamentations 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Ezekiel 33:12 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Ezekiel 36:14 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 36:15 Old Testament, KJV
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Daniel 11:14 Old Testament, KJV
And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
Daniel 11:19 Old Testament, KJV
Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
Daniel 11:33 Old Testament, KJV
And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Daniel 11:34 Old Testament, KJV
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Daniel 11:35 Old Testament, KJV
And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
Daniel 11:41 Old Testament, KJV
He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Hosea 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
Hosea 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.
Hosea 14:1 Old Testament, KJV
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Hosea 14:9 Old Testament, KJV
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Nahum 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
Nahum 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
Zechariah 12:8 Old Testament, KJV
In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
Malachi 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3782, grouped by book.

Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 7 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 5 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 10 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 11 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 6 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 4 usages, Old Testament
Nahum 2 usages, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H3782 FAQ

What does kashal (כָּשַׁל) mean?

Kashal (Strong's H3782) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cast down". kashal (kaw-shal') v. 1. to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle) 2. (by implication) to falter, stumble, faint or fall

How many times is kashal (כָּשַׁל) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 59 linked usages for Strong's H3782 across 16 books.

Where can I study kashal (כָּשַׁל) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3782 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate kashal (כָּשַׁל)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fall, stumble, through, falling, falleth, and faint. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.