Strong's #5307: naphal (pronounced naw-fal')
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 6419), 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 surely, throw down.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
nâphal
1) to fall, lie, be cast down, fail
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to fall
1a2) to fall (of violent death)
1a3) to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself before
1a4) to fall upon, attack, desert, fall away to, go away to, fall into the hand of
1a5) to fall short, fail, fall out, turn out, result
1a6) to settle, waste away, be offered, be inferior to
1a7) to lie, lie prostrate
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to fall, fell, throw down, knock out, lay prostrate
1b2) to overthrow
1b3) to make the lot fall, assign by lot, apportion by lot
1b4) to let drop, cause to fail (figuratively)
1b5) to cause to fall
1c) (Hithpael)
1c1) to throw or prostrate oneself, throw oneself upon
1c2) to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself
1d) (Pilel) to fall
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 434 times:
Genesis 2:21: "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took"
Genesis 4:5: "And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell."
Genesis 4:6: "art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?"
Genesis 14:10: "was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained"
Genesis 15:12: "And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror"
Genesis 15:12: "a horror of great darkness fell upon"
Genesis 17:3: "And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,"
Genesis 17:17: "Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born"
Genesis 24:64: "and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel."
Genesis 25:18: "is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence"
Genesis 33:4: "ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept."
Genesis 43:18: "are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen,"
Genesis 44:14: "for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground."
Genesis 45:14: " And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept"
Genesis 46:29: "to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on"
Genesis 49:17: "the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward."
Genesis 50:1: "And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed"
Genesis 50:18: "And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants."
Exodus 15:16: "Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone;"
Exodus 19:21: "to gaze, and many of them perish."
Exodus 21:18: "with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:"
Exodus 21:27: "And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go"
Exodus 21:33: "it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;"
Exodus 32:28: "did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day"
Leviticus 9:24: "and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces."
Leviticus 11:32: "whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any"
Leviticus 11:33: "vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever"
Leviticus 11:35: "And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven,"
Leviticus 11:37: "And if any part of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed"
Leviticus 11:38: "upon the seed, and any part of their carcass fall thereon, it shall be unclean"
Leviticus 26:7: "And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword."
Leviticus 26:8: "of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword."
Leviticus 26:36: "them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth."
Numbers 5:21: "doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;"
Numbers 5:22: "to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen."
Numbers 5:27: "and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among"
Numbers 6:12: "for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled."
Numbers 14:3: "us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be"
Numbers 14:5: "Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly"
Numbers 14:29: "Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number,"
Numbers 14:32: "But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness."
Numbers 14:43: "and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because"
Numbers 16:4: "And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:"
Numbers 16:22: " And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all"
Numbers 16:45: "this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces."
Numbers 20:6: "unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory"
Numbers 24:4: "saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:"
Numbers 24:16: "which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:"
Numbers 34:2: "(this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts"
Numbers 35:23: "a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy,"
