Words the Bible translates as slip
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- motמוֹטto give way, to totter or slip out of a firm, fixed place; and so, of a person, to be shaken or brought down.
- ma'adמָעַדto slip: to lose one's footing, so that what was holding a person up gives way
- nashalנָשַׁלto come loose from whatever was holding it, or to work something loose: a sandal off a foot, an axe head off its handle, a settled people off their land
- motמוֹטa slipping: the moment a foot gives way under someone
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- a length of timber that bears weight: the pole two people carry a load on, and the crossbar of a yoke laid over a neck
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