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. Judges 2:19 הִפִּ֙ילוּ֙ hi.Pi.lu · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

  2. Judges 3:25 נֹפֵ֥ל no.Fel · An -ing word: simple action

    And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened them, and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

  3. Judges 4:16 וַיִּפֹּ֞ל vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.

  4. Judges 4:22 נֹפֵ֣ל no.Fel · An -ing word: simple action

    And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest. And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.

  5. Judges 5:27 נָפַ֖ל na.Fal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

  6. Judges 5:27 נָפָ֔ל na.Fal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

  7. Judges 5:27 נָפַ֥ל na.Fal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

  8. Judges 7:12 נֹפְלִ֣ים no.fe.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

  9. Judges 7:13 וַיִּפֹּ֛ל vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man telling a dream unto his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came unto the tent, and smote it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.

  10. Judges 7:13 וְנָפַ֥ל ve.na.Fal · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man telling a dream unto his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came unto the tent, and smote it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.

  11. Judges 8:10 וְהַנֹּ֣פְלִ֔ים ve.ha.No.fe.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the host of the children of the east; for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

  12. Judges 9:40 וַֽיִּפְּל֛וּ vai.yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate.

  13. Judges 12:6 וַיִּפֹּ֞ל vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

  14. Judges 13:20 וַיִּפְּל֥וּ vai.yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of Jehovah ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

  15. Judges 15:18 וְנָפַלְתִּ֖י ve.na.fal.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And he was sore athirst, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

  16. Judges 16:30 וַיִּפֹּ֤ל vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life.

  17. Judges 18:1 נָ֨פְלָה Na.fe.lah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

  18. Judges 19:26 וַתִּפֹּ֞ל va.ti.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.

  19. Judges 19:27 נֹפֶ֙לֶת֙ no.Fe.let · An -ing word: simple action

    And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands upon the threshold.

  20. Judges 20:44 וַֽיִּפְּלוּ֙ vai.yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

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