Strongs Number: H5307
- Hebrew Word
- נָפַל
- Transliteration
- nâphal
- Phonetic
- naw-fal'
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Strongs Definition
-
to {fall} in a great variety of applications (intransitively or {causatively} literally or figuratively)
- BDB Definition
-
1. to fall, lie, be cast down, fail
a. (Qal)
1. to fall
2. to fall (of violent death)
3. to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself before
4. to fall upon, attack, desert, fall away to , go away to, fall into the hand of
5. to fall short, fail, fall out, turn out, result
6. to settle, waste away, be offered, be inferior to
7. to lie, lie prostrate
b. (Hiphil)
1. to cause to fall, fell, throw down, knock out, lay prostrate
2. to overthrow
3. to make the lot fall, assign by lot, apportion by lot
4. to let drop, cause to fail (fig.)
5. to cause to fall
c. (Hithpael)
1. to throw or prostrate oneself, throw oneself upon
2. to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself
d. (Pilel) to fall
- Origin
- A primitive root
- Bible Usage
- 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 {[inheritamce]} {inferior} be judged [by mistake for {H6419]} lay ({along}) (cause to) lie {down} light ({down}) be (X hast) {lost} {lying} {overthrow} {overwhelm} {perish} present ({-ed} {-ing}) (make to) {rot} {slay} smite {out} X-(idiom) {surely} throw down.