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Strong's H5307 · Hebrew

naphal

naw-fal'

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


Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H5307

H5307 נָפַל fall , lie . . fall , by accident . . Esp. of violent death . fig. = go to ruin, perish, etc. . fig. = experience calamity . fall , of a city . . Fall prostrate . fall = prostrate oneself before . fall upon one's neck, in embrace . . Fall upon = attack . desert or fall away to , go over to . Fig., of deep sleep . Other idiomatic uses . = lie ; = lie prostrate . . cause to fall . Of causing death; = overthrow , bring to destruction . Esp. of casting lot . Fig., let drop , cause to fail . cause deep sleep to fall . Other idioms . throw , or prostrate oneself

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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