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)
Every occurrence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Judges 20:46 הַנֹּ֨פְלִ֜ים ha.No.fe.Lim · An -ing word: simple action
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.
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Ruth 2:10 וַתִּפֹּל֙ va.ti.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found favor in thy sight, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?
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Ruth 3:18 יִפֹּ֣ל yi.Pol · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he have finished the thing this day.
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1 Samuel 3:19 הִפִּ֥יל hi.Pil · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
And Samuel grew, and Jehovah was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
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1 Samuel 4:10 וַיִּפֹּל֙ vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
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1 Samuel 4:18 וַיִּפֹּ֣ל vai.yi.Pol · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
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1 Samuel 5:3 נֹפֵ֤ל no.Fel · An -ing word: simple action
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of Jehovah. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

