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1 Kings 18:38
“Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
נָפַלnâphal · naw-fal'
H5307 · Hebrew
H5307 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- 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.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- תִּפֹּ֣ל — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 435 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:21Genesis 4:5Genesis 4:6Genesis 14:10Genesis 15:12
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָפַל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.