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. Exodus 15:16 תִּפֹּ֨ל ti.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Terror and dread falleth upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.

  2. Exodus 19:21 וְנָפַ֥ל ve.na.Fal · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish.

  3. Exodus 21:18 וְנָפַ֥ל ve.na.Fal · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;

  4. Exodus 21:27 יַפִּ֑יל ya.Pil · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  5. Exodus 21:33 וְנָֽפַל־ ve.na.fal- · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein,

  6. Exodus 32:28 וַיִּפֹּ֤ל vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

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