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. Ezekiel 25:13 יִפֹּֽלוּ׃ yi.Po.lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword.

  2. Ezekiel 27:27 יִפְּלוּ֙ yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

  3. Ezekiel 27:34 נָפָֽלוּ׃ na.Fa.lu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.

  4. Ezekiel 28:23 וְנִפְלַ֤ל ve.nif.Lal · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

  5. Ezekiel 29:5 תִּפּ֔וֹל ti.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And I will cast thee forth into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.

  6. Ezekiel 30:4 בִּנְפֹ֥ל bin.Fol · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

  7. Ezekiel 30:5 יִפֹּֽלוּ׃ פ yi.Po.lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

  8. Ezekiel 30:6 וְנָֽפְלוּ֙ ve.na.fe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    Thus saith Jehovah: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  9. Ezekiel 30:6 יִפְּלוּ־ yi.pe.lu- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Thus saith Jehovah: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  10. Ezekiel 30:17 יִפֹּ֑לוּ yi.Po.lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.

  11. Ezekiel 30:22 וְהִפַּלְתִּ֥י ve.hi.pal.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

  12. Ezekiel 30:25 תִּפֹּ֑לְנָה ti.Po.le.nah · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

  13. Ezekiel 31:12 נָפְל֣וּ na.fe.Lu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

  14. Ezekiel 32:12 אַפִּ֣יל 'a.Pil · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

  15. Ezekiel 32:20 יִפֹּ֑לוּ yi.Po.lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.

  16. Ezekiel 32:22 הַנֹּפְלִ֖ים ha.no.fe.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;

  17. Ezekiel 32:23 נֹפְלִ֣ים no.fe.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

  18. Ezekiel 32:24 הַנֹּפְלִ֨ים ha.no.fe.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

  19. Ezekiel 32:27 נֹפְלִ֖ים no.fe.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

  20. Ezekiel 33:27 יִפֹּ֔לוּ yi.Po.lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Thus shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely they that are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured; and they that are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

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