Strong H5307H5307Jנָפַל

to fall: kill

One of the 8 senses of Strong H5307

Transliteration
nâphal
Pronunciation
naw-fal'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

: kill/fell/perished/die
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 (fig.)
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

General definition

A primitive root; to {fall} in a great variety of applications (intransitively or {causatively} literally or figuratively): - 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 {[inheritamce]} {inferior} be judged [by mistake for {H6419]} 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.

In the Bible

Strong H5307J appears in 92 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • fall82
  • lie2
  • overthrown2
  • cast1
  • fallen1
  • fell1
  • judge1
  • lose1
  • pass1
  • perish1
  • slay1

First verses

  1. Genesis 44:14
    And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
  2. Exodus 19:21
    And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
  3. Exodus 32:28
    And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
  4. Leviticus 26:7
    And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
  5. Leviticus 26:8
    And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
  6. Leviticus 26:36
    And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
  7. Numbers 6:12
    And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
  8. Numbers 14:3
    And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
  9. Numbers 14:29
    Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
  10. Numbers 14:32
    But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
  11. Numbers 14:43
    For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.
  12. Deuteronomy 21:1
    If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
  13. Deuteronomy 22:4
    Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
  14. Joshua 7:6
    And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
  15. Joshua 8:24
    And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
  16. Joshua 8:25
    And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
  17. Joshua 17:5
    And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
  18. Judges 3:25
    And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
  19. Judges 4:16
    But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
  20. Judges 4:22
    And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
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