Strong’s H5307 · Hebrew

נָפַל
nâphal
naw-fal'

Definition

to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • 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 (פָּלַל))
  • lay (along)
  • (cause to) lie down
  • light (down)
  • be ( hast) lost
  • lying
  • overthrow
  • overwhelm
  • perish
  • present(-ed
  • (make to) rot
  • slay
  • smite out
  • surely
  • throw down

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.