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:
Psalms 78:64: "Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation."
Psalms 82:7: "But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes."
Psalms 91:7: "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not"
Psalms 105:38: "when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon"
Psalms 106:26: "Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:"
Psalms 106:27: " To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands."
Psalms 118:13: "Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped"
Psalms 140:10: "Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not"
Psalms 141:10: "Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape."
Psalms 145:14: "The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down."
Proverbs 1:14: " Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:"
Proverbs 7:26: "For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain"
Proverbs 11:5: "shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness."
Proverbs 11:14: "Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety."
Proverbs 11:28: "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch."
Proverbs 13:17: "A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health."
Proverbs 17:20: "good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief."
Proverbs 19:15: "Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger."
Proverbs 22:14: "pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein."
Proverbs 24:16: "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief."
Proverbs 24:17: "Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:"
Proverbs 26:27: "Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon"
Proverbs 28:10: "to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good"
Proverbs 28:14: "always: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief."
Proverbs 28:18: "shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once."
Ecclesiastes 4:10: "For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe"
Ecclesiastes 4:10: "his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
Ecclesiastes 9:12: "of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon"
Ecclesiastes 10:8: "He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite"
Ecclesiastes 11:3: "the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place"
Ecclesiastes 11:3: "toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it"
Isaiah 3:8: "Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against"
Isaiah 3:25: "Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war."
Isaiah 8:15: "And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken."
Isaiah 9:8: "sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel."
Isaiah 9:10: "The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars."
Isaiah 10:4: "me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this"
Isaiah 10:34: "of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one."
Isaiah 13:15: "shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword."
Isaiah 14:12: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down"
Isaiah 16:9: "for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen."
Isaiah 21:9: "And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods"
Isaiah 21:9: "and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken"
Isaiah 22:25: "place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off:"
Isaiah 24:18: "that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up"
Isaiah 24:20: "like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again."
Isaiah 26:18: "neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen."
Isaiah 26:19: "is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead."
Isaiah 30:13: "iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose"
Isaiah 30:25: "of the great slaughter, when the towers fall."
