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. Joshua 6:5 וְנָ֨פְלָ֜ה ve.Na.fe.Lah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And it shall be, that, when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.

  2. Joshua 6:20 וַתִּפֹּ֨ל va.ti.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets; and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

  3. Joshua 7:6 וַיִּפֹּל֩ vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.

  4. Joshua 7:10 נֹפֵ֥ל no.Fel · An -ing word: simple action

    And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?

  5. Joshua 8:24 וַֽיִּפְּל֥וּ vai.yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

  6. Joshua 8:25 הַנֹּ֨פְלִ֜ים ha.No.fe.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

  7. Joshua 11:7 וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ vai.yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them.

  8. Joshua 13:6 הַפִּלֶ֤הָ ha.pi.Le.ha · A command to you: causing it

    all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot thou it unto Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

  9. Joshua 17:5 וַיִּפְּל֥וּ vai.yi.pe.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And there fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;

  10. Joshua 21:45 נָפַ֣ל na.Fal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    There failed not aught of any good thing which Jehovah had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

  11. Joshua 23:4 הִפַּ֨לְתִּי hi.Pal.ti · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Behold, I have allotted unto you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun.

  12. Joshua 23:14 נָפַל֩ na.Fal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which Jehovah your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing hath failed thereof.

  13. Joshua 23:14 נָפַ֥ל na.Fal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which Jehovah your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing hath failed thereof.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

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