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.