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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:

Jeremiah 52:15: "that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon,"
Lamentations 1:7: "in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none"
Lamentations 2:21: "in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger;"
Lamentations 5:16: "The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!"
Ezekiel 1:28: "of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice"
Ezekiel 3:23: "by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face."
Ezekiel 5:12: "shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part"
Ezekiel 6:4: "shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols."
Ezekiel 6:7: "And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 6:11: "of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence."
Ezekiel 6:12: "shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die"
Ezekiel 8:1: "me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon"
Ezekiel 9:8: "while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said,"
Ezekiel 11:5: "And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus"
Ezekiel 11:10: " Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 11:13: "the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud"
Ezekiel 13:11: "unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye,"
Ezekiel 13:11: "shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend"
Ezekiel 13:12: "Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing"
Ezekiel 13:14: "the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 17:21: "his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all"
Ezekiel 23:25: "thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons"
Ezekiel 24:6: "by piece; let no lot fall upon"
Ezekiel 24:21: "and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword."
Ezekiel 25:13: "it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword."
Ezekiel 27:27: "are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day"
Ezekiel 27:34: "thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall."
Ezekiel 28:23: "and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side;"
Ezekiel 29:5: "thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not"
Ezekiel 30:4: "shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations"
Ezekiel 30:5: "and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword."
Ezekiel 30:6: "the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower"
Ezekiel 30:6: "shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 30:17: "The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity."
Ezekiel 30:22: "and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand."
Ezekiel 30:25: "of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD,"
Ezekiel 31:12: "and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers"
Ezekiel 32:12: "By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil"
Ezekiel 32:20: " They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all"
Ezekiel 32:22: "are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:"
Ezekiel 32:23: "her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror"
Ezekiel 32:24: "her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised"
Ezekiel 32:27: "lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down"
Ezekiel 33:27: "surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in"
Ezekiel 35:8: "and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword."
Ezekiel 38:20: "at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall"
Ezekiel 38:20: "and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground."
Ezekiel 39:3: "out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand."
Ezekiel 39:4: " Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people"
Ezekiel 39:5: " Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith"









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