נָפַל

Strong’s Definition

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

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

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.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.to fall, lie, be cast down, fail
• 2.(qal)
• 3.(hiphil)
• 4.(hithpael)
• 5.(pilel) to fall

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: nâphal; Pronunciation: naw-fal'