Strong's Hebrew #4384 - מַכְשֵׁלָה makshelah (something overthrown)

ruin, stumbling-block

Feminine from kashal; a stumbling-block, but only figuratively (fall, enticement (idol)) -- ruin, stumbling-block.

see HEBREW kashal

1) overthrown mass, stumbling-block, something overthrown, decay, ruin
1a) thing overthrown (figurative of kingdom)
1b) stumbling-block (of idols)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3782
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1050d

מַכְשֵׁלָה noun feminine 1. overthrown mass.

2 stumbling-block; —

1 figurative of kingdom Isaiah 3:6.

2 plural הַמַּכְשֵׁלוֺת Zephaniah 1:3 stumbling-blocks = idols (compare מִכְשׁוֺל 2c), but rather dubious; We thinks a gloss. Schw^{ZAW x. (1890), 169} reads וְכִשַּׁלְתִּי and I will cause the wicked to stumble.

I. כשׁף (√ of following; compare Arabic cut off, cut up, Syriac to pray (literally probably to cut oneself, see 1 Kings 18:28): so Rs^{J Phil. xiv. 125, 126} Nö^{ZMG 1886, 723}; according to RS כֶּשֶׁף is properly herbs etc. shredded into a magic brew).

Strong's Hebrew: 4384. מַכְשֵׁלָה (makshelah) — 2 Occurrences

Isaiah 3:6
HEB: תִּֽהְיֶה־ לָּ֑נוּ וְהַמַּכְשֵׁלָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את תַּ֥חַת
NAS: And these ruins will be under
KJV: be thou our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:
INT: shall be our ruler become ruins likewise will be under

Zephaniah 1:3
HEB: וּדְגֵ֣י הַיָּ֔ם וְהַמַּכְשֵׁל֖וֹת אֶת־ הָרְשָׁעִ֑ים
NAS: of the sea, And the ruins along
KJV: of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked;
INT: and the fish of the sea and the ruins along the wicked