What is the Strong's number for Naphal?

The Strong's number for Naphal (נָפַל) is H5307. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Naphal (Strong’s H5307): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Naphal mean?

Naphal (נָפַל, Strong's H5307) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative). The King James Bible translates it as 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), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down.

Naphal (נָפַל) is the Hebrew word numbered H5307 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative). In the King James Bible it is translated be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out).

נָפַל

nâphal · Hebrew

Strong’s H5307 · naw-fal'

Original wordנָפַל
Transliterationnâphal
Pronunciationnaw-fal'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH5307
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

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

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

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), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Naphal appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Naphal (H5307) stands behind 435 English renderings in 403 verses across 33 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (54), Jeremiah (45), 2 Samuel (30).

How the King James Bible renders Naphal, by count

fall148 of 435 (34 percent)
fell97 of 435 (22 percent)
fallen52 of 435 (12 percent)
down38 of 435 (9 percent)
cast17 of 435 (4 percent)
falleth15 of 435 (3 percent)

Three places to read Naphal

Genesis 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
2 Samuel 19:18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
Isaiah 10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Naphal in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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