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H5307 · נָפַל

nâphal

Primary-Source Attested

Strong’s definition

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

KJV gloss list in the source

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.

Source pronunciation notation: naw-fal'

Derivation recorded by Strong

a primitive root;

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