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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. Genesis 2:21וַיַּפֵּל֩ · caused
    So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
  2. Genesis 4:5וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ · fell
    …but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.
  3. Genesis 4:6נָפְל֥וּ · fallen
    “Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?
  4. Genesis 14:10וַיִּפְּלוּ־ · some men fell
    Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.
  5. Genesis 15:12נָפְלָ֣ה · fell; נֹפֶ֥לֶת · overwhelmed
    As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
  6. Genesis 17:3וַיִּפֹּ֥ל · fell facedown
    Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
  7. Genesis 17:17וַיִּפֹּ֧ל · fell facedown
    Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
  8. Genesis 24:64וַתִּפֹּ֖ל · she got down
    And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
  9. Genesis 25:18נָפָֽל׃פ · And they lived
    Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
  10. Genesis 33:4וַיִּפֹּ֥ל · threw his arms around
    Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
  11. Genesis 43:18וּלְהִתְנַפֵּ֣ל · to overpower
    But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Joseph’s house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
  12. Genesis 44:14וַיִּפְּל֥וּ · and they fell
    When Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
  13. Genesis 45:14וַיִּפֹּ֛ל · Then Joseph threw his arms around
    Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.
  14. Genesis 46:29וַיִּפֹּל֙ · embraced
    Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.
  15. Genesis 49:17וַיִּפֹּ֥ל · tumbles
    He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
  16. Genesis 50:1וַיִּפֹּ֥ל · fell
    Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
  17. Genesis 50:18וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ · bowed down
    His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”
  18. Exodus 15:16תִּפֹּ֨ל · will fall
    …and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.
  19. Exodus 19:21וְנָפַ֥ל · perish
    …and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD, lest many of them perish.
  20. Exodus 21:18וְנָפַ֥ל · but is confined
    If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,
  21. Exodus 21:27יַפִּ֑יל · he knocks out
    And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
  22. Exodus 21:33וְנָֽפַל־ · falls
    If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
  23. Exodus 32:28וַיִּפֹּ֤ל · fell dead
    The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.
  24. Leviticus 9:24וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ · and fell
    Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.
  25. Leviticus 11:32יִפֹּל־ · and falls
    When one of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.
  26. Leviticus 11:33יִפֹּ֥ל · falls
    If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.
  27. Leviticus 11:35יִפֹּ֨ל · falls
    Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.
  28. Leviticus 11:37יִפֹּל֙ · falls
    If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;
  29. Leviticus 11:38וְנָפַ֥ל · falls
    …but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
  30. Leviticus 26:7וְנָפְל֥וּ · and they will fall
    You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
  31. Leviticus 26:8וְנָפְל֧וּ · will fall
    Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
  32. Leviticus 26:36וְנָפְל֖וּ · and fall
    As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
  33. Numbers 5:21נֹפֶ֔לֶת · shrivel
    …and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.
  34. Numbers 5:22וְלַנְפִּ֣ל · to shrivel
    May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
  35. Numbers 5:27וְנָפְלָ֖ה · will shrivel
    When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
  36. Numbers 6:12יִפְּל֔וּ · shall not be counted
    He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.
  37. Numbers 14:3לִנְפֹּ֣ל · to fall
    Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
  38. Numbers 14:5וַיִּפֹּ֥ל · fell
    Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
  39. Numbers 14:29יִפְּל֨וּ · will fall
    Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
  40. Numbers 14:32יִפְּל֖וּ · will fall
    As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
  41. Numbers 14:43וּנְפַלְתֶּ֖ם · and you will fall
    For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
  42. Numbers 16:4וַיִּפֹּ֖ל · he fell
    When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.
  43. Numbers 16:22וַיִּפְּל֤וּ · But Moses and Aaron fell
    But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
  44. Numbers 16:45וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ · And [Moses and Aaron] fell
    “Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron fell facedown.
  45. Numbers 20:6וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ · They fell facedown
    Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. They fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
  46. Numbers 24:4נֹפֵ֖ל · who bows down
    …the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
  47. Numbers 24:16נֹפֵ֖ל · who bows down
    …the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
  48. Numbers 34:2תִּפֹּ֤ל · will be allotted
    “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
  49. Numbers 35:23וַיַּפֵּ֥ל · drops
    …or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,