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:
1 Samuel 5:4: "on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before"
1 Samuel 11:7: "shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out"
1 Samuel 14:13: "his feet, and his armorbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armorbearer"
1 Samuel 14:42: "And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken."
1 Samuel 14:45: "there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought"
1 Samuel 17:32: "Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight"
1 Samuel 17:49: "his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth."
1 Samuel 17:52: "of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath,"
1 Samuel 18:25: "thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines."
1 Samuel 19:24: "before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day"
1 Samuel 20:41: "arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself"
1 Samuel 25:23: "and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on"
1 Samuel 25:24: " And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid,"
1 Samuel 26:12: "because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon"
1 Samuel 26:20: "Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face"
1 Samuel 28:20: "Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid,"
1 Samuel 29:3: "no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?"
1 Samuel 31:1: "fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa."
1 Samuel 31:4: "afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon"
1 Samuel 31:5: "that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword,"
1 Samuel 31:8: "Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa."
2 Samuel 1:2: "and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance."
2 Samuel 1:4: "of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son"
2 Samuel 1:10: "he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon"
2 Samuel 1:12: "the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword."
2 Samuel 1:19: "thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!"
2 Samuel 1:25: "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in"
2 Samuel 1:27: "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"
2 Samuel 2:16: "and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called"
2 Samuel 2:23: "rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place:"
2 Samuel 2:23: "to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still."
2 Samuel 3:29: "one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread."
2 Samuel 3:34: "put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest"
2 Samuel 3:34: "before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again"
2 Samuel 3:38: "that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?"
2 Samuel 4:4: "and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth."
2 Samuel 9:6: "was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David"
2 Samuel 11:17: "and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants"
2 Samuel 14:4: "spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance,"
2 Samuel 14:11: "there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth."
2 Samuel 14:22: "And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked"
2 Samuel 17:9: "in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say,"
2 Samuel 17:12: "and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all"
2 Samuel 19:18: "And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;"
2 Samuel 20:8: "in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out."
2 Samuel 20:15: "were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down."
2 Samuel 21:9: "them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days"
2 Samuel 21:22: "were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants."
2 Samuel 22:39: "them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet."
2 Samuel 24:14: "Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for"
