Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H5308
נְפַל
nephalnef-al'
to fall
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nᵉphal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5308is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5308
{to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)}
The King James renders it: fall (down), have occasion.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nephal is rendered "to fall". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 7:20And if anything else is needed for the house of your God that you may have occasion to supply, you may pay for it from the royal treasury.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And if anything else is needed for the house of your God that you may have occasion to supply, you may pay for it from the royal treasury.
Ezra 7:20יִפֶּל־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he will fall down3
- you will fall down2
- and they fell1
- falling down1
- he fell1
- it fell1
- it will fall1
- they fell1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְפַק | nephaq | to go out | Uses11 |
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יִפֵּ֖ל2
- וּנְפַ֥לָה1
- יִפֵּ֥ל1
- יִפֶּל־1
- נְפַ֣ל1
- נְפַ֑ל1
- נְפַ֛לוּ1
- נָֽפְלִ֨ין1
- תִּפְּל֤וּן1
- תִּפְּל֣וּן1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4AVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural2AVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2AVqp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine plural1AC/Vqp3fp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVqp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1AVqrmpa
Ezra
one use
And if anything else is needed for the house of your God that you may have occasion to supply, you may pay for it from the royal treasury.
- יִפֶּל־yipel-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will fall
Daniel
ten uses
At this, King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, paid homage to Daniel, and ordered that an offering of incense be presented to him.
- נְפַ֣לnefalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he fell
As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.
- תִּפְּל֤וּןtipelunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will fall down
And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”
- יִפֵּ֖לyipelverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will fall down
Therefore, as soon as all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, the people of every nation and language would fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
- נָֽפְלִ֨יןnafelinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: falling down
You, O king, have issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the golden statue,
- יִפֵּ֥לyipelverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will fall down
and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.
- יִפֵּ֖לyipelverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will fall down
Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”
- תִּפְּל֣וּןtipelunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will fall down
And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, firmly bound, fell into the blazing fiery furnace.
- נְפַ֛לוּnefaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they fell
While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.
- נְפַ֑לnefalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it fell
I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others, with eyes and with a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
- וּנְפַ֥לָהunefaluconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: and they fell
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.