155 occurrences

'Fall' in the Bible

and terror and dread will fall on them.They will be as still as a stonebecause of Your powerful armuntil Your people pass by, Lord,until the people whom You purchased pass by.

MarketsPassing ThroughPurchasingTypes Of ChristArm Of GodMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople As Rocksgreatnessterrorism

You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

Pursuing PeoplePeople OvercomingEnemies

Five of you will pursue 100, and 100 of you will pursue 10,000; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

Pursuing PeopleMinoritiesFive PeopleOne HundredTens Of ThousandsMany EnemiesPeople Overcomingflying

“I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.

FugitivesHuman EmotionHeart, HumanWeakness, PhysicalFaint HeartednessSurvivors Threatened

The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community.”

Camping During The ExodusAction Lest God Be Angry

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

dew

Your corpses will fall in this wilderness—all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you 20 years old or more—because you have complained about Me.

Maturity, PhysicalTwentyDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentDying In The Desert Complaining

But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.

Dying In The WildernessDeath As Punishment

The Amalekites and Canaanites are right in front of you, and you will fall by the sword. The Lord won’t be with you, since you have turned from following Him.”

Conversion, God's demands forKilled With The Sword

“You are to guard the sanctuary and the altar so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.

SanctuaryAction Lest God Be AngryResponsibility

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in His fierce anger.

BrimstoneCities of the plainMineralsSodom And GomorrahSulphurWasteEcological ConcernsGod Angry With The NationsSourness

Let my teaching fall like rainand my word settle like dew,like gentle rain on new grassand showers on tender plants.

dewGrassPlantsRainTendernessWeather, As God's JudgmentAbundance, MaterialShowersPeople TeachingHerbsdoctrine

This is how we will treat them: we will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

Covenant ObligationsUnfaithfulness, To PeopleKept Alive By Men

He became very thirsty and called out to the Lord: “You have accomplished this great victory through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

UncircumcisionFear, Of DeathFear Of Death

Then she let him fall asleep on her lap and called a man to shave off the seven braids on his head. In this way, she made him helpless, and his strength left him.

Contentious WomanBarbersBaldnessKneelingShavingTreacheryKneesSeven Body PartsLong HairNo Strength LeftHairvulnerabilitydreadlocks

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? No, as the Lord lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he worked with God’s help today.” So the people redeemed Jonathan, and he did not die.

HairsHeadsPublic OpinionFar Be It!Hairs ProtectedIndividuals Saving Others

So don’t let my blood fall to the ground far from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has come out to search for a flea, like one who pursues a partridge in the mountains.”

HuntingInsectsBirds, Types Of BirdsRestraints From KillingFleasPartridges

She replied, “Please, may the king invoke the Lord your God, so that the avenger of blood will not increase the loss, and they will not eliminate my son!”“As the Lord lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son will fall to the ground.”

Avenger of bloodHairsHairs ProtectedMan Avenging

He’s probably already hiding in one of the caves or some other place. If some of our troops fall first, someone is sure to hear and say, ‘There’s been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’

CavesPeople In CavesHiding From PeopleKilling Will HappenCaves As Places Of Refuge

I wipe them out and crush them,and they do not rise;they fall beneath my feet.

FeetDownfallPeople Overcoming

David answered Gad, “I have great anxiety. Please, let us fall into the Lord’s hands because His mercies are great, but don’t let me fall into human hands.”

MercifulnessRegretDanger From MenMercyMaking DecisionsDecision Making

Then Solomon said, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground, but if evil is found in him, he dies.”

Mercy, Examples OfHeadsHairs ProtectedHair

And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ So one was saying this and another was saying that.

Enticing

Then the man of God asked, “Where did it fall?”When he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.

Miracles Of ElishaBuoyancyWhere Are Things?

So a horseman went to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Do you come in peace?’”Jehu replied, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me.”The watchman reported, “The messenger reached them but hasn’t started back.”

WatchmanUnrelated Things

So he sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Do you come in peace?’”Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me.”

Unrelated Things

You have indeed defeated Edom, and you have become overconfident. Enjoy your glory and stay at home. Why should you stir up such trouble that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

Arrogance, Characterizes The WickedBusybodiesProud People

I am about to put a spirit in him, and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”

RumoursSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfKilling Will Happenrumors

David answered Gad, “I’m in anguish. Please, let me fall into the Lord’s hands because His mercies are very great, but don’t let me fall into human hands.”

God, Greatness OfRegretMiseryempathy

And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ So one was saying this and another was saying that.

You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and you have become overconfident that you will get glory. Now stay at home. Why stir up such trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?”

SuccessArrogance, Characterizes The WickedTwelve Beings

Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven must be done diligently for the house of the God of heaven, so that wrath will not fall on the realm of the king and his sons.

diligenceAction Lest God Be Angryrisk

When shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem just before the Sabbath, I gave orders that the gates be closed and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my men at the gates, so that no goods could enter during the Sabbath day.

ShadowsCitiesShutting GatesDarkness Of Night

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won’t overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”

Named WivesGod's TimingGods TimingGod's Timing And Plan

Would God’s majesty not terrify you?Would His dread not fall on you?

Terror Of God

then let my shoulder blade fall from my back,and my arm be pulled from its socket.

AnatomyShoulders

Punish them, God;let them fall by their own schemes.Drive them out because of their many crimes,for they rebel against You.

BanishmentRebellion, Against GodFruits Of SinDriven Away By GodFound GuiltyRebellion against GodGuilt

So he is oppressed and beaten down;the helpless fall because of his strength.

People Falling From A Height

I crush them, and they cannot get up;they fall beneath my feet.

DownfallPeople Overcomingcrushes

Let ruin come on him unexpectedly,and let the net that he hid ensnare him;let him fall into it—to his ruin.

Lack Of ExpectationLet Evil Reboundsurprises

There the evildoers fall;they have been thrown down and cannot rise.

EvildoersDownfall

For I am about to fall,and my pain is constantly with me.

People Stumbling

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;You make them fall into ruin.

The Insecurity Of The WickedSlipperyness

He made them fall in His camp,all around His tent.

Animals Falling

However, you will die like menand fall like any other ruler.”

How Death Is Inevitable

Though a thousand fall at your sideand ten thousand at your right hand,the pestilence will not reach you.

A Thousand PeopleTens Of ThousandsPeople StumblingFar From One

So He raised His hand against them with an oaththat He would make them fall in the desert

Dying In The WildernessGod Swearing Harm

He loved cursing—let it fall on him;he took no delight in blessing—let it be far from him.

Bad LanguageCursingLoving EvilPeople BlessingUngodly CursingBlessing OthersSwearingcurses

You pushed me hard to make me fall,but the Lord helped me.

PressingAbasing PeopleGod HelpsSupporthurting

Let hot coals fall on them.Let them be thrown into the fire,into the abyss, never again to rise.

Burning People

The righteousness of the blameless clears his path,but the wicked person will fall because of his wickedness.

God's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

The one who digs a pit will fall into it,and whoever rolls a stone—it will come back on him.

PitsRetributionDigging PitsRollingPit Used As TrapsKarma

The one who leads the upright into an evil waywill fall into his own pit,but the blameless will inherit what is good.

Apostasy, Personal WarningsRetributionTrapEnticersDigging Pits

The one who lives with integrity will be helped,but one who distorts right and wrongwill suddenly fall.

SafetyCrookednessTwisted WaysDownfallSudden Death

The one who digs a pit may fall into it,and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

The Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

Your men will fall by the sword,your warriors in battle.

Killing Will Happenbranding

I will make it a wasteland.It will not be pruned or weeded;thorns and briers will grow up.I will also give orders to the cloudsthat rain should not fall on it.

BriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land

Many will stumble over these;they will fall and be broken;they will be snared and captured.

People Stumbling

There will be nothing to doexcept crouch among the prisonersor fall among the slain.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike.

God's HandCrouchingGod's Hands Stretched Out

On that dayhis burden will fall from your shoulders,and his yoke from your neck.The yoke will be broken because of fatness.

AnointingFatnessAnointing With OilCivil LibertyYokesShouldersRemoving BurdensRemoving People From Your LifeBreaking Chainsliberation

He is clearing the thickets of the forest with an ax,and Lebanon with its majesty will fall.

The Prophecy Towards Lebanon

On that day”—the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the Lord has spoken.

TentsPegs

Whoever flees at the sound of panicwill fall into a pit,and whoever escapes from the pitwill be caught in a trap.For the windows are opened from heaven,and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

ClimbingEarth's FoundationWindows Of HeavenMoving UpwardsPeople Falling From A HeightGod TrappingFear Will Come

Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall.

TowersBrooks

Egyptians are men, not God;their horses are flesh, not spirit.When the Lord raises His hand to strike,the helper will stumbleand the one who is helped will fall;both will perish together.

God, As SpiritAliancesStumblingTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstGod's HandLimitations Of The BodyGod's Hands Stretched OutDanger From MenNatural Disasters

Then Assyria will fall,but not by human sword;a sword will devour him,but not one made by man.He will flee from the sword;his young men will be put to forced labor.

SwordsGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesForced Labour

I am about to put a spirit in him and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”

RumoursSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfKilling Will Happenrumors

To one who shapes a pedestal,choosing wood that does not rot?He looks for a skilled craftsmanto set up an idol that will not fall over.

UnreliabilityWisdom, Human NaturedissatisfactionMotionlessnessSkilled PeopleNo DecayMoving Oncraftsmanshipimage

Youths may faint and grow weary,and young men stumble and fall,

MonotonyYouthLimitations Of Youth

The craftsman encourages the metalworker;the one who flattens with the hammersupports the one who strikes the anvil,saying of the soldering, “It is good.”He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over.

encouragement, examples ofRidicule, Nature OfSkillToolsGoldsmithsBlacksmithsHammersNailsEncouraging One AnotherEncouraging Othersencouragingwoodworkingcraftsmanshipprocess

But disaster will happen to you;you will not know how to avert it.And it will fall on you,but you will be unable to ward it off.Devastation will happen to you suddenlyand unexpectedly.

The Insecurity Of The WickedSudden DestructionSuddenlyNot Knowing The Future

If anyone attacks you,it is not from Me;whoever attacks youwill fall before you.

SurrenderEnemy Attacksgatheringcredibility

For just as rain and snow fall from heavenand do not return therewithout saturating the earthand making it germinate and sprout,and providing seed to sowand food to eat,

Agriculture, Used FigurativelyWinterLand ProducingSnowGod Feeds All The EarthChange And GrowthSeedsspringtimewaterfallsproviding

The sons of your oppressorswill come and bow down to you;all who reviled youwill fall facedown at your feet.They will call you the City of the Lord,Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Names For JerusalemHumbling The ProudoppressionzionAll Enemies Under God's Feet

Were they ashamed when they acted so abhorrently?They weren’t at all ashamed.They can no longer feel humiliation.Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.When I punish them, they will collapse,says the Lord.

AbominationsRegretCorrupted ConsciencesThe Insecurity Of The WickedBlushingPeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown ThingsAbsence Of RegretFeeling Lost

“You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says:Do people fall and not get up again?If they turn away, do they not return?

The Insecurity Of The Wicked

Were they ashamed when they acted so abhorrently?They weren’t at all ashamed.They can no longer feel humiliation.Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.When I punish them, they will collapse,”says the Lord.

BlushingDecadencePeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown Things

Speak as follows:This is what the Lord says:Human corpses will falllike manure on the surface of the field,like newly cut grain after the reaperwith no one to gather it.

CornBinding corndirtUnburied BodiesDefecationNo BurialsNot Reaping What You Sow

I will spoil the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those who want to take their life. I will provide their corpses as food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.

Guidance, Need For God'sPlansAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesKilling Israelites

for this is what the Lord says, ‘I am about to make you a terror to both yourself and those you love. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will deport them to Babylon and put them to the sword.

SpectatorsExile In ProspectMade A HorrorGod Will Cause Defeatrelentlessterrorism

For I have heard the gossip of many people,“Terror is on every side!Report him; let’s report him!”Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.“Perhaps he will be deceivedso that we might prevail against himand take our vengeance on him.”

FriendlessnessPeace, Human Destruction OfPersecution, Forms OfSympathyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapDefamationDeceiving OneselfFear Will ComeFriends FailingMan AvengingUnder One's BreathRevengeterrorism

Therefore, their way will be to themlike slippery paths in the gloom.They will be driven away and fall down there,for I will bring disaster on them,the year of their punishment.This is the Lord’s declaration.

YearsThe Insecurity Of The WickedWalking In DarknessThe Day Of JudgementSlipperynessGod SuingGod Will Bring HarmPaths

“Then you are to say to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.

DegradationGod Making DrunkDrunkennessbeeralcoholism

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out.Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.Because the days of your slaughter have come,you will fall and become shattered like a precious vase.

Weeping

Indeed, I will certainly deliver you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will keep your life like the spoils of war.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

The Effects Of FaithTrusting God And Not Worrying

And I will take away the remnant of Judah, those who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to live there for a while; they will meet their end. All of them in the land of Egypt will fall by the sword; they will meet their end by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by the sword and by famine. Then they will become an object of cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace.

Killed With The SwordFamine KillingMade A Horror

The swift cannot flee,and the warrior cannot escape!In the north by the bank of the Euphrates River,they stumble and fall.

NorthNo Escape

He who flees from the panic will fall in the pit,and he who climbs from the pitwill be captured in the trap,for I will bring against Moabthe year of their punishment.This is the Lord’s declaration.

YearsThe Day Of JudgementGod TrappingFear Will Come

At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.

Other References To The Red Sea

The arrogant will stumble and fallwith no one to pick him up.I will set fire to his cities,and it will consume everything around him.”

StumblingAbaseAbasement Of The ProudDownfallBurning CitiesThe Proud Will Be Abaseduncertaintyarrogance

Bible Theasaurus

Crash (9 instances)
Decline (11 instances)
Decrease (9 instances)
Descend (65 instances)
Descent (30 instances)
Desolation (150 instances)
Devastation (35 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐκπίπτω 
Ekpipto 
Usage: 11

προσπίπτω 
Prospipto 
Usage: 7

נבל 
Nabel 
Usage: 25

נפל 
Naphal 
Usage: 434

נפל 
N@phal (Aramaic) 
Usage: 11

ἐπιπίπτω 
Epipipto 
fall , fall on , press , lie
Usage: 12

καταβαίνω 
Katabaino 
Usage: 63

καταπίπτω 
Katapipto 
Usage: 2

κοιμάω 
Koimao 
sleep , fall asleep , be asleep , fall on sleep , be dead
Usage: 16

περιπίπτω 
Peripipto 
Usage: 2

πίπτω πέτω 
Pipto 
Usage: 56

יחמוּר 
Yachmuwr 
Usage: 2

כּשׁל 
Kashal 
Usage: 62

מוט 
Mowt 
Usage: 38

מכשׁל מכשׁול 
Mikshowl 
Usage: 14

מפּלת 
Mappeleth 
Usage: 8

מרט 
Marat 
Usage: 12

נגר 
Nagar 
Usage: 10

נטשׁ 
Natash 
Usage: 40

נר ניר 
Niyr 
Usage: 4

סגד 
Cagad 
Usage: 4

פּגע 
Paga` 
Usage: 46

קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 34

שׁחה 
Shachah 
Usage: 171

שׁלל 
Shalal 
Usage: 16

ἀποπίπτω 
Apopipto 
Usage: 1

ἀποστασία 
Apostasia 
Usage: 2

ἄπταιστος 
Aptaistos 
Usage: 1

ἀφίστημι 
Aphistemi 
Usage: 13

ἀφυπνόω 
Aphupnoo 
Usage: 1

ἐμπίπτω 
Empipto 
Usage: 4

ἐπιβάλλω 
Epiballo 
Usage: 13

καταργέω 
Katargeo 
destroy , do away , abolish , cumber , loose , cease , fall , deliver , s
Usage: 25

καταφέρω 
Kataphero 
Usage: 3

παραβαίνω 
Parabaino 
Usage: 3

παραπίπτω 
Parapipto 
Usage: 1

παράπτωμα 
Paraptoma 
Usage: 17

πταίω 
Ptaio 
Usage: 5

πτῶσις 
Ptosis 
Usage: 1

σκάνδαλον 
Skandalon 
Usage: 8

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