65 occurrences in 9 translations

'Falls' in the Bible

He will be a snake by the road,a viper beside the path,that bites the horses’ heelsso that its rider falls backward.

Verse ConceptsBitingSerpentsSnakesHeelsPeople TumblingThings Like SnakesSnakebitesFalling Backwards

Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them.”

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableBoth Men And Animals Killed

Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone -- until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people pass over who you have purchased.

Verse ConceptsMarketsPassing ThroughPurchasingTypes Of ChristArm Of GodMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople As Rocksgreatnessterrorism

“When a man uncovers a pit or digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningOpening PitsAnimals Falling

When any one of them dies and falls on anything it becomes unclean—any item of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work. It is to be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

Verse ConceptsDressClean ObjectsUnclean Until Evening

If any of them falls into any clay pot, everything in it will become unclean; you must break it.

Verse ConceptsClayBreaking Containers

Anything one of their carcasses falls on will become unclean. If it is an oven or stove, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

Verse ConceptsBakingOvensBreaking Containersporkcookingpot

If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it is clean;

Verse ConceptsSowing Seeds

but if water has been put on the seed and one of their carcasses falls on it, it is unclean for you.

Verse ConceptsMoist Things

When he has made her drink the waters, it will come about, if she has defiled herself and acted unfaithfully to her husband and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse go into her and her stomach swells and her hip falls away, the woman will be as a curse in the midst of her people.

Verse ConceptsThighsRepulsive FoodBad WaterBitter WaterSwellingBitternessInfidelityHurt And Betrayaladultry

and the slope of the valleys that extends to the dwelling of Ar, and falls off at the border of Moab."

the oracle of one who hears the sayings of God,who sees a vision from the Almighty,who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

Verse ConceptsecstasySpiritual Blindness, Removal OfProstrationRevelation, In OtHearing God's WordReceiving SightThose Who Saw GodRevelation Through Visions And Dreams

the oracle of one who hears the sayings of Godand has knowledge from the Most High,who sees a vision from the Almighty,who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

Verse ConceptsecstasyGod On HighHearing God's WordReceiving SightVisions From God

You are to divide the land among yourselves by lot according to your families. The larger the families are in number, the larger their inheritance is to be. The fewer the families are in number, the lesser their inheritance is to be. To whomever the lot falls, that inheritance goes to him. Divide it according to your ancestral tribes.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsReal EstateAccording To PeopleFew PeopleMany In Israel

But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce food. You may cut them down to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

Verse ConceptsRooftopArchitectureHousesSanctity Of LifeBattlementsPeople Falling From A HeightGuiltconstruction

May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole house, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease, or a man who can only work a spindle, or someone who falls by the sword or starves.”

Verse ConceptsLeprosyBodyLackWeakness, PhysicalNo FoodDischargesWithout Strength

Your hands were not bound,your feet not placed in bronze shackles.You fell like one who falls victim to criminals.And all the people wept over him even more.

Verse ConceptsWeepingTying UpBronze Shackles

Behold, he has now hidden himself in one of the caves or in another place; and it will be when he falls on them at the first attack, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’

Verse ConceptsCavesPeople In CavesHiding From PeopleKilling Will HappenCaves As Places Of Refuge

And we shall come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.

Verse ConceptsdewHoly Spirit, Types OfNo SurvivorsKilling Will Happen

"The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

Verse ConceptsLack Of RainSigns Of RepentanceSin Brings ImpoverishmentSin Producing Afflictions

"The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

Verse ConceptsClosing Up

If I shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or if I command locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence and plague among My people,

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTClosing Up

And the remainder of the needs for the house of your God that falls to you to provide, you may provide from the house of the king's treasury."

Verse ConceptsUnlimitedness

Disquieting thoughts from dreams at night; when deep sleep falls on everyone.

Verse ConceptsNightOvercoming Adversitywaterfalls

‘Is not their tent-cord drawn up within them [so that the tent collapses]?Do they not die, and yet without [acquiring] wisdom?’

Verse ConceptsTentsFoolishness Of Men

But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,

Verse ConceptsAbrasionMountains RemovedNature DecayingMoving To A New Place

“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,And my bones are burned with fever.

Verse ConceptsBodydiseasesSkinFeverDamage To The BodyHot ThingsBlack PeopleColor

In a dream, a vision in the night,when deep sleep falls on peopleas they slumber on their beds,

Verse ConceptsNight

His trouble comes back on his own head,and his violence falls on the top of his head.

Verse ConceptsHeadsMischiefFreedom From Violenceproblems

He crushes [his prey] and crouches;And the unfortunate fall by his mighty claws.

Verse ConceptsPeople Falling From A Height

Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed,because the Lord holds his hand.

Verse ConceptsStumblingHelp From GodGod SupportingSupportBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

May he be like rain that falls on the cut grass,like spring showers that water the earth.

Verse ConceptsRainWeather, As God's JudgmentHoly Spirit, Types OfShowersMowingMetaphorical WateringLike Grass

May those who surround me discover that the trouble they talk about falls on their own head!

Verse ConceptsHeadsLipsSpeech, Power And Significance OfLet Evil Reboundoverwhelmed

The LORD supports everyone who falls and raises up those who are bowed down.

Verse ConceptsAdversityBowingNot StumblingGod Lifting PeopleSupportHelping Those In Need

A king favors a wise servant,but his anger falls on a disgraceful one. >

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyGood KingsAccessservanthood

The person whose mind is perverse does not find good, and anyone with perverted speech falls into trouble.

Verse ConceptsCondemned HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedProverbsSpeech, Negative Aspects OfTonguePerversionTwisted Ways

Though a righteous man falls seven times,he will get up,but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

Verse ConceptsGiving UpMischiefSeven TimesDownfallBurnoutMistakesRisingA Good Man

Like a muddied fountain and a polluted springIs a righteous man who yields and compromises his integrity before the wicked.

Verse Conceptsdouble mindednessFountainsProverbsSpring Of Waterpressure

Like a thorn which falls into the hand of a drunkard,So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Verse ConceptsProverbsWise Proverbsdrunkards

Whoever is partner with a thief hates his own life;He hears the curse [when swearing an oath to testify], but discloses nothing [and commits perjury by omission].

Verse ConceptsStealingWitnesses, LegalComplicityNot Maintaining Lifethievespartnership

For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.

Verse ConceptsBest FriendsTragedyNot Being Alonehelphelpingpity

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain on the earth;whether a tree falls to the south or the north,the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseCompassesNorth And SouthThings FallingWeather In The Last Dayscloudsinvesting

Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the Lord; they rebel against his royal authority.

Verse ConceptsdefianceJerusalem, Significance OfDisobedience, To GodInfidelity To GodDownfall Of Israel

The Lord sends a message against Jacob,And it falls on Israel.

Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchWord Of God

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares everyone wails and falls down weeping.

Verse ConceptsProstrationRoofSackcloth And AshesSorrowRooftop

The earth staggers like a drunkardand sways like a hut.Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,and it falls, never to rise again.

Verse ConceptsStaggeringGod Making DrunkThings Fallingrebelliondrunkards

All the stars in the sky will fade away, the sky will roll up like a scroll; all its stars will wither, like a leaf withers and falls from a vine or a fig withers and falls from a tree.

Verse ConceptsdrynessAstronomyHost Of HeavenScrollsSkyStarsVinesFigsThe Universe DestroyedNature DecayingAffecting Sun Moon And StarsLucifer

Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

Verse ConceptsAdoration, FalseTreesWarmingFirewoodSelf Imagecookingimage

But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

Verse ConceptsBowingReligionIdolatry Consists OfPraying Amissimage

"And there will no longer be in it a young boy who lives only a few days, or an old person who does not live out his days; for one who dies at a hundred years will be thought a mere youth, and one who falls short of a hundred years will be considered accursed.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedMillennial KingdomNew Heavens And New EarthOld Age, Attainment OfLifespanLiving LongDyingDeath Of A Childbabyteenager

He who dwells in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as booty.

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveDeath Of Other GroupsSurrender

He continues to stumble.Indeed, each falls over the other.They say, “Get up! Let’s return to our peopleand to the land of our birth,away from the sword that oppresses.”

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingSaying Repeatedly

And look! [When] the wall falls, will it not be said to you, 'Where [is] the whitewash [with] which you covered [it]?'

Verse ConceptsPlaster

So I will tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation is laid bare; and when it falls, you will be consumed in its midst. And you will know that I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsDestruction Of The WickedFoundations Of NationsPlasterThings StrippedWhitewashingMoral Decay

He brings destruction on the strong,and it falls on the stronghold.

Verse ConceptsCityGod DestroyingDestruction Of Strongholds

"For look, I am giving a command and I will shake the family of Israel together with all the nations. It will resemble a sieve being shaken, when not even a pebble falls to the ground.

Verse ConceptsSiftingGod ShakingSievingThings Falling

All your defenses are like fig trees with ripe early fruit when shaken, it falls right into the devourer's mouth.

Verse ConceptsFortressesFig treeMouthsThings ShakingEating With MouthsThings Falling

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