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)
Every occurrence
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Esther 3:7 הִפִּ֣יל hi.Pil · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
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Esther 3:7 וַיִּפֹּל vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
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Esther 6:10 תַּפֵּ֣ל ta.Pel · A mild command: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.
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Esther 6:13 לִנְפֹּ֤ל lin.Pol · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
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Esther 6:13 נָפ֥וֹל na.Fol · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
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Esther 6:13 תִּפּ֖וֹל ti.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
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Esther 7:8 נֹפֵ֔ל no.Fel · An -ing word: simple action
Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
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Esther 8:3 וַתִּפֹּ֖ל va.ti.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
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Esther 8:17 נָפַ֥ל na.Fal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day. And many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen upon them.
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Esther 9:2 נָפַ֥ל na.Fal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them was fallen upon all the peoples.
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Esther 9:3 נָפַ֥ל na.Fal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and they that did the king's business, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai was fallen upon them.
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Esther 9:24 וְהִפִּ֥יל ve.hi.Pil · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
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