--- title: נְפַל — fall · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary description: נְפַל (lemma:נְפַל), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 11 times: fall. BDB 1906: vb. fall. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e4_5b7_5dc.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Biblical Aramaic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/) / [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/1504.md)‎ / נְפַל‎ # נְפַל «נְפַל» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **fall** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 11 times · **Key:** lemma:נְפַל · **BDB:** נְפַל ### Glosses he.will.fall.down (3); they.fell (2); you.will.fall.down (2) ### Meaning (OSHB) fall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e4_5b7_5dc/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) vb. fall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e4_5b7_5dc/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** vb. fall (v. BH);— Pf. 3 ms. נ׳ Dn 2:46; נְפַ֑ל 4:28; 3 mpl. נְפַ֫לוּ 3:23 + 7:20 Kt (Qr 3 fpl. נְפַ֫לָה, K§23, 2); Impf. 3 ms. יִפֵּל (K§ 42) Dn 3:6 +; 2 mpl. תִּפְּלוּן 3:5, 15; Pt. pl. נָֽפְלִין 3:7;— fall, עַל־אַנְפּ֫וֹהִי Dn 2:46; fall down and do homage 3:5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15; ל loc. 3:23; of voice, מִן־שְׁמַיָּא 4:28. fall by violence 7:20 (c. קֳדָם). יִפֵּל לָךְ Ezr 7:20 it shall fall to thee (thou shalt need) to give (cf. Chr-Pal. SchulthLex. 126 and ZAW xxii (1902), 163). ### Jastrow 1903 נְפַל: Hif. to be upset, fall in [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e4_5b7_5dc/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. II Sam. I, 4. Targ. Koh. XI, 3 למִנְפַּל; a. v. fr.—Imperat. פִּיל. Targ. Is. L, 11.—Part. נָפֵיל, part. pass. נְפִיל. Targ. Prov. XI, 5 (ed. Wil. נְפַל). Targ. Ps. CXLV, 14; a. e.—Ḥull. 51ᵃ אי נְפוּל לארעא if they were thrown down (violently). Ib.ᵇ, v. נְגִיחוּתָא. Ned. 65ᵇ כל דמעני לאו עלי נפיל not every one that becomes poor, falls on me (for support). B. Mets. 105ᵃ בזרא דנ׳ נ׳ a seed (of weeds) once fallen, has fallen (cannot be destroyed by the plough). Meg. 15ᵇ נַפְלָה ליה מילתא בדעתיה something (a suspicion) had entered his mind; a. fr. , as preced. Hif. Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 28. Targ. Y. Ex. XXI, 22; a. fr.—Ḥull. 42ᵃ top אַפּוּלֵי אפיל (read אַפְּלָא) she may have miscarried. Snh. 109ᵇ ומַפְּלָא ליה and she miscarried through his fault; a. fr. to be upset, fall in. M. Kat. 2ᵃ דאתי לאִינְּפוּלֵי a caving in (of the ground through which the water makes a road) might occur; ib.ᵇ; a. e. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (12 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «נְפַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e4_5b7_5dc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Daniel 3:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.11/) וּמַן־דִּי־לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְיִסְגֻּ֑ד יִתְרְמֵ֕א לְגֽוֹא־אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃ *Word for word:* and whoever that not he.will.fall.down and he.will.pay.homage he.will.be.thrown to the.midst of.the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning *JPS 1917:* and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. [Ezra 7:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.20/) וּשְׁאָ֗ר חַשְׁחוּת֙ בֵּ֣ית אֱלָהָ֔ךְ דִּ֥י יִפֶּל־לָ֖ךְ לְמִנְתַּ֑ן תִּנְתֵּ֕ן מִן־בֵּ֖ית גִּנְזֵ֥י מַלְכָּֽא׃ *Word for word:* and the.rest of.the.thing\[s\].needed of.the.house of your.God which it.will.fall to you to give you.will.give from the.house of.the.treasures of the.king *JPS 1917:* And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure-house. - ← previous: [נְסַךְ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e1_5b7_5da_5b0.md) - next →: [נְפַק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5e4_5b7_5e7.md) - ↑ back to [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/1504.md)