נָפַל

na.phal · to fall: fall

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

English

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. Ecclesiastes 4:10 יִפֹּ֔לוּ yi.Po.lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

  2. Ecclesiastes 4:10 שֶׁיִּפּ֔וֹל shei.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

  3. Ecclesiastes 9:12 כְּשֶׁתִּפּ֥וֹל ke.shet.ti.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

  4. Ecclesiastes 10:8 יִפּ֑וֹל yi.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

  5. Ecclesiastes 11:3 יִפּ֥וֹל yi.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.

  6. Ecclesiastes 11:3 שֶׁיִּפּ֥וֹל shei.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.

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