Stumble
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to strike against," is used of "stumbling," (a) physically, John 11:9,10; (b) metaphorically, (1) of Israel in regard to Christ, whose Person, teaching, and atoning Death, and the Gospel relating thereto, were contrary to all their ideas as to the means of righteousness before God, Romans 9:32; 1—Peter 2:8; (2) of a brother in the Lord in acting against the dictates of his conscience, Romans 14:21 . See Beat , No. 6.
"to cause to stumble," signifies, intransitively, "to stumble," used metaphorically in Romans 11:11 , in the sense (b) (1) in No. 1; with moral significance in James 2:10; 3:2 (twice), RV, "stumble" (AV, "offend"); in 2—Peter 1:10 , RV, "stumble" (AV, "fall").
Jude 1:24Fall
King James Dictionary [2]
Stumble This word is probably from a root that signifies to stop or to strike, and may be allied to stammer.
1. To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall applied to any animal. A man may stumble, as well as a horse.
The way of the wicked is as darkness they know not at what they stumble. Proverbs 4 .
2. To err to slide into a crime or an error.
He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John 2 .
3. To strike upon without design to fall on to light on by chance. Men often stumble upon valuable discoveries.
Ovid stumbled by some inadvertence upon Livia in a bath.
STUMBLE,
1. To obstruct in progress to cause to trip or stop. 2. To confound to puzzle to put to a nonplus to perplex.
One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
STUMBLE, n.
1. A trip in walking or running. 2. A blunder a failure.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
John 11:9 (b) The light of GOD's Word reveals GOD's way, and GOD's plan so that the child of GOD who walks in fellowship with GOD will not stray away from the path.
Romans 9:32 (b) Israel felt they could get along very well as long as Christ was left out of the picture. When He appeared the Scribes, the Pharisees and the Herodians at once complained, resented and rejected CHRIST. It revealed their hatred and exposed their evil hearts. (See Romans 11:11; 1 Peter 2:8).
Romans 14:21 (b) Paul would not have any believer to have a false idea, or come to a wrong conclusion by anything which he would do. A Christian doctor might be going into a saloon as a call of duty to save the life of an injured man. Someone seeing him go might say, "If he can patronize the saloon, so can I," and so that one would be led astray because he did not know the facts. This is Paul's argument. (See1Jo 2:10).
Webster's Dictionary [4]
(1): ( n.) A trip in walking or running.
(2): ( v. t.) Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.
(3): ( v. t.) To cause to stumble or trip.
(4): ( v. i.) To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; - with on, upon, or against.
(5): ( n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
(6): ( v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
(7): ( v. i.) To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
(8): ( v. i.) To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
