Keraia
Lexicon

נָפַל

na.phalto fall: fallHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb434 occurrences33 books403 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Traditional renderings: 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 H6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders נָפַל:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

434 total
  1. Deuteronomy 9:18וָֽאֶתְנַפַּל֩ · Then I fell down
    Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
  2. Deuteronomy 9:25וָֽאֶתְנַפַּ֞ל · So I fell down; הִתְנַפָּ֑לְתִּי
    So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
  3. Deuteronomy 21:1נֹפֵ֖ל · lying
    If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
  4. Deuteronomy 22:4נֹפְלִ֣ים · fallen
    If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
  5. Deuteronomy 22:8יִפֹּ֥ל · someone falls; הַנֹּפֵ֖ל
    If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
  6. Deuteronomy 25:2וְהִפִּיל֤וֹ · shall have him lie down
    If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
  7. Joshua 2:9נָפְלָ֤ה · has fallen
    …and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.
  8. Joshua 5:14וַיִּפֹּל֩ · fell
    “Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of the LORD’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?”
  9. Joshua 6:5וְנָ֨פְלָ֜ה · will collapse
    And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”
  10. Joshua 6:20וַתִּפֹּ֨ל · collapsed
    So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.
  11. Joshua 7:6וַיִּפֹּל֩ · and fell
    Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads.
  12. Joshua 7:10נֹפֵ֥ל · fallen
    But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?
  13. Joshua 8:24וַֽיִּפְּל֥וּ · last one of them had fallen
    When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.
  14. Joshua 8:25הַנֹּ֨פְלִ֜ים · fell
    A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
  15. Joshua 11:7וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ · and attacked
    So by the waters of Merom, Joshua and his whole army came upon them suddenly and attacked them,
  16. Joshua 13:6הַפִּלֶ֤הָ · divide it by lot
    All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim—all the Sidonians—I Myself will drive out before the Israelites. Be sure to divide it by lot as an inheritance to Israel, as I have commanded you.
  17. Joshua 17:5וַיִּפְּל֥וּ · fell
    Thus ten shares fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan beyond the Jordan,
  18. Joshua 21:45נָפַ֣ל · had failed
    Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled.
  19. Joshua 23:4הִפַּ֨לְתִּי · I have allotted
    See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
  20. Joshua 23:14נָפַל֩ · has failed; נָפַ֥ל · has failed
    Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
  21. Judges 2:19הִפִּ֙ילוּ֙ · give up
    But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
  22. Judges 3:25נֹפֵ֥ל · lying
    So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.
  23. Judges 4:16וַיִּפֹּ֞ל · fell
    Then Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.
  24. Judges 4:22נֹפֵ֣ל · lay
    When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.
  25. Judges 5:27נָפַ֖ל · he fell; נָפָ֔ל · he fell; נָפַ֥ל · he fell
    At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.
  26. Judges 7:12נֹפְלִ֣ים · had settled
    Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
  27. Judges 7:13וַיִּפֹּ֛ל · so hard that; וְנָפַ֥ל · and collapsed
    And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
  28. Judges 8:10וְהַנֹּ֣פְלִ֔ים · had already fallen
    Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.
  29. Judges 9:40וַֽיִּפְּל֛וּ · fell
    …but Abimelech pursued him, and Gaal fled before him. And many Shechemites fell wounded all the way to the entrance of the gate.
  30. Judges 12:6וַיִּפֹּ֞ל · were killed
    …they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.
  31. Judges 13:20וַיִּפְּל֥וּ · they fell
    When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
  32. Judges 15:18וְנָפַלְתִּ֖י · and fall
    And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
  33. Judges 16:30וַיִּפֹּ֤ל · fell
    Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
  34. Judges 18:1נָ֨פְלָה · come into
    In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
  35. Judges 19:26וַתִּפֹּ֞ל · collapsed
    Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.
  36. Judges 19:27נֹפֶ֙לֶת֙ · collapsed
    In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
  37. Judges 20:44וַֽיִּפְּלוּ֙ · fell
    And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
  38. Judges 20:46הַנֹּ֨פְלִ֜ים · fell
    That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
  39. Ruth 2:10וַתִּפֹּל֙ · At this, she fell
    At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
  40. Ruth 3:18יִפֹּ֣ל · go
    “Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”
  41. 1 Samuel 3:19הִפִּ֥יל · fall
    And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.
  42. 1 Samuel 4:10וַיִּפֹּל֙ · fell
    So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
  43. 1 Samuel 4:18וַיִּפֹּ֣ל · Eli fell
    As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
  44. 1 Samuel 5:3נֹפֵ֤ל · fallen
    When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.