Original Language Studio
Amos 3:5
“Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?” (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
- הֲ — particle (interrogative)
- תִפֹּ֤ל — verb Qal, 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.