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Genesis 17:17

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Masoretic Text 1524

H5307 fell ויפל

H85 Then Abraham אברהם

H5921 upon על

H6440 his face פניו

H6711 and laughed ויצחק

H559 and said ויאמר

H3820 in his heart בלבו

H1121 old הלבן

H3967 unto him that is an hundred מאה

H8141 years שׁנה

H3205 Shall a child be born יולד

H518 ואם

H8283 and shall Sarah שׂרה

H1323 הבת

H8673 that is ninety תשׁעים

H8141 years שׁנה

H3205 bear תלד׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Then

H85 Abraham

H5307 fell

H5921 upon

his

H6440 face

and

H6711 laughed

and

H559 said

his

H3820 heart

Shall

child

H3205 born

unto

him

that

H3967 hundred

H8141 years

H1121 old

and

shall

H8283 Sarah

that

H8673 ninety

H8141 years

H1121 old

H3205 bear

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H5307

Hebrew: נָפַל

Transliteration: nâphal

Pronunciation: naw-fal'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: 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 {[inheritamce]} {inferior} be judged [by mistake for {H6419]} lay ({along}) (cause to) lie {down} light ({down}) be (X hast) {lost} {lying} {overthrow} {overwhelm} {perish} present ({-ed} {-ing}) (make to) {rot} {slay} smite {out} X-(idiom) {surely} throw down.

Definition:

to {fall} in a great variety of applications (intransitively or {causatively} literally or figuratively)

1. to fall, lie, be cast down, fail

a. (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

b. (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

c. (Hithpael)

1. to throw or prostrate oneself, throw oneself upon

2. to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself

d. (Pilel) to fall

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906