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נָפַל H5307
H5307 is the Hebrew word נָפַל, transliterated nâphal and said naw-fal'. The King James Version most often renders it fall.
What it means
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative).
Where it comes from
a primitive root.
How the King James Version translates it
Across 310 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of 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 (פָּלַל)), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be ([idiom] hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, [idiom] surely, throw down.
Verses using נָפַל
The first 40 of 377 verses, quoted in full.
Genesis 2:21 · KJV
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Genesis 14:10 · KJV
And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Genesis 15:12 · KJV
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis 17:3 · KJV
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
Genesis 17:17 · KJV
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis 24:64 · KJV
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
Genesis 25:18 · KJV
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
Genesis 33:4 · KJV
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Genesis 43:18 · KJV
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
Genesis 44:14 · KJV
And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
Genesis 45:14 · KJV
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Genesis 46:29 · KJV
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Genesis 49:17 · KJV
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Genesis 50:1 · KJV
And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
Genesis 50:18 · KJV
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
Exodus 15:16 · KJV
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
Exodus 21:18 · KJV
And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
Exodus 21:27 · KJV
And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
Exodus 32:28 · KJV
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Leviticus 9:24 · KJV
And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Leviticus 11:32 · KJV
And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
Leviticus 11:33 · KJV
And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
Leviticus 11:35 · KJV
And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:37 · KJV
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
Leviticus 11:38 · KJV
But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
Leviticus 26:7 · KJV
And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus 26:8 · KJV
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.
Leviticus 26:36 · KJV
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.
Numbers 5:21 · KJV
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
Numbers 5:22 · KJV
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
Numbers 5:27 · KJV
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
Numbers 6:12 · KJV
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.
Numbers 14:3 · KJV
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?
Numbers 14:5 · KJV
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers 14:29 · KJV
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,
Numbers 14:32 · KJV
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:43 · KJV
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.
Numbers 16:4 · KJV
And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
Numbers 16:22 · KJV
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Numbers 16:45 · KJV
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Common questions
What does Strong's H5307 mean?
H5307 is the Hebrew word נָפַל (nâphal), meaning to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative).
How is H5307 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it fall (117 times), fell (89 times), fallen (42 times), fell down (16 times), cast (14 times), among others.
How many times does H5307 appear in the Bible?
נָפַל (nâphal) is tagged in 377 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H5307 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.
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