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 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;

  2. 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.

  3. 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,

  4. 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.

  5. Leviticus 9:24 וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ vai.yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

  6. Leviticus 11:32 יִפֹּל־ yi.pol- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean.

  7. Leviticus 11:33 יִפֹּ֥ל yi.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean, and it ye shall break.

  8. Leviticus 11:35 יִפֹּ֨ל yi.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

  9. Leviticus 11:37 יִפֹּל֙ yi.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

  10. Leviticus 11:38 וְנָפַ֥ל ve.na.Fal · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.

  11. Leviticus 26:7 וְנָפְל֥וּ ve.na.fe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  12. Leviticus 26:8 וְנָפְל֧וּ ve.naf.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

  13. Leviticus 26:36 וְנָפְל֖וּ ve.naf.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

  14. Numbers 5:21 נֹפֶ֔לֶת no.Fe.let · An -ing word: simple action

    then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;

  15. Numbers 5:22 וְלַנְפִּ֣ל ve.lan.Pil · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.

  16. Numbers 5:27 וְנָפְלָ֖ה ve.na.fe.Lah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

  17. Numbers 6:12 יִפְּל֔וּ yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

  18. Numbers 14:3 לִנְפֹּ֣ל lin.Pol · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

  19. Numbers 14:5 וַיִּפֹּ֥ל vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

  20. Numbers 14:29 יִפְּל֨וּ yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,

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