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:
2 Chronicles 25:19: "why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with"
2 Chronicles 29:9: "For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity"
2 Chronicles 32:21: "of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword."
Ezra 10:1: "had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled"
Nehemiah 6:16: "were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this"
Nehemiah 10:34: " And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering,"
Nehemiah 11:1: "at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of"
Esther 3:7: "in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot,"
Esther 6:10: "at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that"
Esther 6:13: "of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but"
Esther 6:13: "to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before"
Esther 6:13: "to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before"
Esther 7:8: "into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed"
Esther 8:3: "yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears"
Esther 8:17: "of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell"
Esther 9:2: "could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people."
Esther 9:3: "the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon"
Esther 9:24: "against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume"
Job 1:15: "And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I"
Job 1:16: "and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep,"
Job 1:19: "and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead;"
Job 1:20: "and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshiped,"
Job 4:13: "from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,"
Job 6:27: "Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend."
Job 12:3: "as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not"
Job 13:2: "also: I am not inferior unto"
Job 13:11: "his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon"
Job 14:18: "And surely the mountain falling cometh to naught, and the rock is removed out of his place."
Job 29:24: "it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down."
Job 31:22: "Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone."
Job 33:15: "in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon"
Psalms 5:10: "Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions;"
Psalms 7:15: "He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made."
Psalms 10:10: "He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones."
Psalms 16:6: "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage."
Psalms 18:38: "them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet."
Psalms 20:8: "They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright."
Psalms 22:18: "They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture."
Psalms 27:2: "my flesh, they stumbled and fell."
Psalms 35:8: "that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall."
Psalms 36:12: "There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise."
Psalms 37:14: "the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright"
Psalms 37:24: "Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand."
Psalms 45:5: "of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under"
Psalms 55:4: "within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon"
Psalms 57:6: "a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah."
Psalms 69:9: "hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon"
Psalms 73:18: "Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction."
Psalms 78:28: " And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations."
Psalms 78:55: "He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes"
