נָפַל

na.phal · to fall: fall

Hebrew · Strong's H5307 · Verb · Sounds like: naw-fal' · 435 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to fall: fall H5307G 277
  • to fall: kill H5307J · a Meaning of 98
  • to fall: allot H5307I · a Meaning of 26
  • to fall: deserting H5307H · a Meaning of 17
  • to fall: fell(trees) H5307M · a Meaning of 6
  • to fall: fail H5307L · a Meaning of 5
  • to fall: presenting H5307N · a Meaning of 4
  • to fall: angry H5307K · a Meaning of 2

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative); be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for פָּלַל), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be ([idiom] hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, [idiom] surely, throw down.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
נָפַל 433 vb. fall, lie
Qal 366
1. fall, by accident
2.
a. Esp. of violent death
b. fig. = go to ruin, perish, etc.
c. fig. = experience calamity
d. fall, of a city
3.
a. Fall prostrate
b. fall = prostrate oneself before
c. fall upon one's neck, in embrace
4.
a. Fall upon = attack
b. desert or fall away to, go over to
5. Fig., of deep sleep
6. Other idiomatic uses
7. = lie; = lie prostrate
Hiph.
1. cause to fall
2. Of causing death; = overthrow, bring to destruction
3. Esp. of casting lot
4. Fig., let drop, cause to fail
5. cause deep sleep to fall
6. Other idioms
Hithp. throw, or prostrate oneself

Every occurrence

  1. Deuteronomy 9:18 וָֽאֶתְנַפַּל֩ va.'et.na.Pal · An action: doing it to oneself, and then it happened, done by me

    And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

  2. Deuteronomy 9:25 וָֽאֶתְנַפַּ֞ל va.'et.na.Pal · An action: doing it to oneself, and then it happened, done by me

    So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.

  3. Deuteronomy 9:25 הִתְנַפָּ֑לְתִּי hit.na.Pal.ti · An action: doing it to oneself, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.

  4. Deuteronomy 21:1 נֹפֵ֖ל no.Fel · An -ing word: simple action

    If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him;

  5. Deuteronomy 22:4 נֹפְלִ֣ים no.fe.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

  6. Deuteronomy 22:8 יִפֹּ֥ל yi.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

  7. Deuteronomy 22:8 הַנֹּפֵ֖ל ha.no.Fel · An -ing word: simple action

    When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

  8. Deuteronomy 25:2 וְהִפִּיל֤וֹ ve.hi.pi.Lo · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

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