Words the Bible translates as stagger
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.
- kashalכָּשַׁלto stumble and so be brought down: to totter, lose one's footing, and fall, whether from weakness, in defeat, or into ruin
- ta'ahתָּעָהto stray from the right course: to wander off and lose the way, or to be led off it
- nu'aנוּעַto move unsteadily: to shake or quiver in place, to reel, or to roam with no settled place to rest.
- ga'ashגָּעַשׁto heave and lurch: to be thrown into violent rocking motion, the way ground bucks in an earthquake or water churns in a flood
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