H5307

נפל

נפל
napal

Verb · A primitive root

A primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative):—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 6419), 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.

Outline

  1. to fall, lie, be cast down, fail
    1. (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
    2. (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
    3. (Hithpael)
      1. to throw or prostrate oneself, throw oneself upon
      2. to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself
    4. (Pilel) to fall

Usages (6/9)

Isaiah 14:12

Breakdown

Lucifer is not a reference to the spiritual demon Satan, but rather Esau, known today as the so-called white-man. Nor is it a reference to "fallen angels" (Ecclesiasticus 16:26-28, Psalms 103:20)

Strongs concordance

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