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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Hebrew - English Dictionary

H5307 - Lay

Strong's No.:H5307

Hebrew:נָפַל

Transliteration:nâphal

Phonetic:naw-fal'

Word Origin:A primitive root

Bible 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 {[inheritamce]} {inferior} be judged [by mistake for {H6419]} lay ({along}) (cause to) lie {down} light ({down}) be (X hast) {lost} {lying} {overthrow} {overwhelm} {perish} present ({-ed} {-ing}) (make to) {rot} {slay} smite {out} X-(idiom) {surely} throw down.

Part of Speech:Verb

Strongs
Definition:

to {fall} in a great variety of applications (intransitively or {causatively} literally or figuratively)


Brown Driver
Biggs Definition:

1. to fall, lie, be cast down, fail

a. (Qal)

1. to fall

2. to fall (of violent death)

3. to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself before

4. to fall upon, attack, desert, fall away to , go away to, fall into the hand of

5. to fall short, fail, fall out, turn out, result

6. to settle, waste away, be offered, be inferior to

7. to lie, lie prostrate

b. (Hiphil)

1. to cause to fall, fell, throw down, knock out, lay prostrate

2. to overthrow

3. to make the lot fall, assign by lot, apportion by lot

4. to let drop, cause to fail (fig.)

5. to cause to fall

c. (Hithpael)

1. to throw or prostrate oneself, throw oneself upon

2. to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself

d. (Pilel) to fall


Bible References:
Lay

Translation
Occurrences:
accepted ( 2 )
along ( 1 )
among ( 1 )
away ( 4 )
cast ( 15 )
casteth ( 1 )
ceased ( 1 )
died ( 1 )
divided ( 1 )
down ( 41 )
fail ( 2 )
failed ( 4 )
fall ( 148 )
fallen ( 52 )
falleth ( 12 )
falling ( 3 )
fell ( 98 )
felled ( 1 )
fellest ( 1 )
felling ( 1 )
fugitives ( 1 )
have ( 1 )
in ( 1 )
inferior ( 2 )
judged ( 1 )
keepeth ( 1 )
lay ( 2 )
liest ( 1 )
lighted ( 2 )
lost ( 2 )
lot ( 5 )
lying ( 1 )
man ( 1 )
out ( 3 )
overthrow ( 2 )
overthrown ( 3 )
overwhelm ( 1 )
perish ( 1 )
present ( 3 )
presented ( 1 )
presenting ( 1 )
rot ( 3 )
slew ( 1 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.