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:
Ezekiel 39:23: "from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword."
Ezekiel 43:3: "by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face."
Ezekiel 44:4: "filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face."
Ezekiel 45:1: " Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, a holy portion"
Ezekiel 47:14: "it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance."
Ezekiel 47:22: "And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which"
Ezekiel 47:22: "you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among"
Ezekiel 48:29: "This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance,"
Daniel 8:10: "even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars"
Daniel 8:17: "where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto"
Daniel 9:18: "for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses,"
Daniel 9:20: "and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God"
Daniel 10:7: "but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves."
Daniel 11:12: "the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened"
Daniel 11:19: "toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found."
Daniel 11:26: "him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain."
Hosea 7:7: "their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto"
Hosea 7:16: "like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue:"
Hosea 10:8: "to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on"
Hosea 13:16: "for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child"
Joel 2:8: "they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded."
Amos 3:5: "Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up"
Amos 3:14: "of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground."
Amos 5:2: "The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon"
Amos 7:17: "in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line;"
Amos 8:14: "and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again."
Amos 9:9: "in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."
Amos 9:11: "the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up"
Jonah 1:7: "to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause"
Jonah 1:7: "for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell"
Jonah 1:7: "evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah."
Micah 7:8: "not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness,"
Nahum 3:12: "the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater."
Zechariah 11:2: "fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl,"
