375 occurrences in 12 translations

'Fell' in the Bible

And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

Verse ConceptsBitumen and tarMineralsEscaping To MountainsPeople Falling From A HeightPeoples Who FledSurvivors Of The Nations

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Verse ConceptsNightSleep, PhysicalSunsetsOvertaken By DarknessThose Frightened Of GodEclipseSolar Eclipse

He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

Verse ConceptsNightThe SunBedsSunsetsStones As Monuments

Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob's daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingHeart, HumanTendernessClinging To PeopleGentle WordsMen And Women Who LovedThe Love Of Women

As they journeyed, there was a great [supernatural] terror [sent from God] on the cities around them, and [for that reason] the Canaanites did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine Protection, Examples OfTerror Of Godterrorism

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwiceSeven Things

Yet when they had devoured them, it could not be detected that they had eaten them, because they were still as thin and emaciated as before. Then I awoke [but again I fell asleep and dreamed].

Verse ConceptsBad Items

And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.

Verse ConceptsBowing Before Joseph

And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

Verse ConceptsNecksSalutations

And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingChariotsGreetingsLove, And The WorldChildren, Good KidsChildren, Good Examples OfMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimePreparing To Travel

And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

Verse ConceptsBowing Before Joseph

When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the Lord caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Causes OfThunderMiracles Of Moses And AaronHailFire From Heaven

Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

Verse ConceptsFireStormsUnique Things

Terror and dread fell on them; at the greatness of your arm they became silent like the stone, until your people passed by, Yahweh, until [the] people whom you bought passed by.

Verse ConceptsMarketsPassing ThroughPurchasingTypes Of ChristArm Of GodMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople As Rocksgreatnessterrorism

Now all the people witnessed the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the smoking mountain; and as they looked, the people were afraid, and they trembled [and moved backward] and stood at a [safe] distance.

Verse ConceptsLightningMusical Instruments, types ofSmokeTheophanyThunderFear, Of UnknownStanding At A DistanceTrumpets For SignallingThose Frightened Of GodWitnessingdistancesmokingThunder Showing God's Presence

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Verse ConceptsThree Thousand And UpKilling Within Israelgenocide

And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

Verse ConceptsGesturesFireProstrationShoutingTheophanyShouting For JoyAnswers By FireFire From HeavenBurning SacrificesGroups ShoutingSacrifice On The Bronze Altar

And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.

But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsAtonementLiving In The WildernessDriving Out AnimalsTaking Away EvilWhilst Alive

And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Verse ConceptsMixed MultitudeWhat Foreigners DoMourning In RegretGreedComplaining

And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

Verse Conceptsdew

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And Obedience

And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

Verse ConceptsSpirit, Fallen And RedeemedWill God Be Angry?venting

Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil PeopleGod Might Kill His People

But they fell upon their faces. Then Moses told Aaron. "Take the censer, put fire on it from the altar, and burn some incense. Then walk quickly to the congregation and atone for them, because wrath has already come out from the LORD the plague has begun."

Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfAaron, As High PriestCensers

And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfAttitudes, in prayerPrayer, Practicalities OfProstrationGod's Glory In IsraelAssembling At The Doorway

And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyGesturesAnger, Sinful ExamplesAnger Of Man, UnrighteousAnimal RightsLying Down To RestSeeing AngelsNamed People Angry With Others

Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyBowingProstrationReceiving SightSeeing AngelsGod's Sword

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsMediatorProstrationWaterFasting, Accompanied ByMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

Verse ConceptsForty DaysSecret PrayerMore Than One MonthGod Might Kill His People

Before the men fell asleep, she went up on the roof

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftop

And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

Verse ConceptsGesturesAttitudes, in prayerProstrationGod As A WarriorDivinityServant LeadershipResolving Conflictarmyreverence

So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsInvasionsShouting For JoyConquestChantingNot Turning AsidePeople TumblingBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThings Fallingdrums

And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesArk Of The Covenant, FunctionEveningClothing, Tearing OfHeadsProstrationSprinklingHumility, Examples OfDust On The HeadThose Who Tore Clothes

When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had chased them toward the desert (they all fell by the sword), all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

Verse ConceptsCarnageConquest

And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen Thousand

So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.

Verse ConceptsSuddenly

And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,

And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsBeyond Jordan

The allotment of the tribe of the descendants of Benjamin came up according to their families, and their territorial allotment fell between the descendants of Judah and the descendants of Joseph.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Responsibility

Then the second lot fell to Simeon, to the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilitySecond Thing

The fourth lot fell to Issachar, to the sons of Issachar according to their families.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One FourthFourth

Now the fifth lot fell to the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One FifthFifthBorders Around Tribal Areas

The sixth lot fell to the sons of Naphtali; to the sons of Naphtali according to their families.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One SixthSixth

The seventh lot fell to the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families.

Verse ConceptsSeventh

The allotment {fell} for the families of the Kohathites. The descendants of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, {received} by lot thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsThirteen

for the descendants of Aaron, one of the families of the descendants of Kohath, of the descendants of Levi, since the lot fell in their favor first.

Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofUnfaithfulness, To GodNot AloneUnder The Ban

But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

Verse ConceptsConquest

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

Verse ConceptsPeople Tumbling

And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

Verse ConceptsGrainTentsCakesTurning Upside DownDreams Involving Unusual Imagesgideon

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen ThousandOne Hundred Thousand And MoreSurvivors Of The Nations

Abimelech chased him, and Gaal ran away from him. Many fell wounded right up to the entrance to the city gate.

Verse ConceptsWounds

God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell on them.

Verse ConceptsCursing The UngodlyGod Makes Evil Rebound

Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpFordsKilling Within Israelbridges

For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

Verse ConceptsProstrationCreatures Going UpOther Creatures Going Up

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came to meet him shouting. The Spirit of the Lord took control of him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like burnt flax and his bonds fell off his wrists.

Verse ConceptsFlaxArmsPower, HumanShoutingTranceGroups Shouting

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsMen And Women Who Loved

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakPeople TumblingAt Daybreak

The descendants of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and 22,000 soldiers of Israel fell in battle that day.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And UpKilling Within IsraelDefeat Of God's People

and the tribe of Benjamin went to war against them from Gibeah during that second day, and 18,000 soldiers from the Israelis all of them expert swordsmen fell to the ground.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationEleven To Nineteen ThousandKilling Within IsraelDefeat Of God's People

They attacked the army and were drawn away from the city as they began to inflict casualties on the soldiers along the roads to Bethel and Gibeah, just as they had done the other times. About 30 soldiers from Israel fell in battle there and in the fields.

Verse ConceptsThirtyBringing People Out Of Other PlacesKilling Within Israel

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen Thousand

So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And Up

Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?

Verse ConceptsBowingGrace, In Human RelationshipsProstrationGratitudeLoving Foreigners

Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good KidsChildren, Good Examples OfGrowing UpGod With Specific PeopleMan's Words Fulfilledmanhood

And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

Verse ConceptsTentsCarnageThirty Thousand And UpIsrael FleeingKilling Within IsraelDefeat Of God's People

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsBackwardsPeople Tumblinglosing a loved oneDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A FatherLeadership QualitiesFalling Backwards

And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

Verse ConceptsGesturesHeraldKnivesAnimals Cut In PiecesUnified PeopleTerror Of God

Now it fell upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines garrison, that is on yonder side. But he told not his father.

Verse ConceptsArmourGarrisonsManlinessCrossing To The Other SideThose Who Did Not Tell

And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.

Verse Conceptsarmor

And the people fell on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingSheepSpoils Of WarForbidden FoodGod's People Sinning

And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

Verse ConceptsForeheadsThrowing StonesSlinging Stones

And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

Verse ConceptsGatesRoadsTribes Of Israel

He also removed his clothes and was caught up in prophetic ecstasy right in front of Samuel! He fell down naked and remained there all that day and all night. That is why people say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightNudityNaked In ShameIndividual ProphetsOld Sayingssaul

And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfSympathyWeepingFriendship, Examples OfKissesTearsActing Three Timesgoodbyes

And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsephodsLinenThe Number EightyEighties

And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

Verse ConceptsBowingProstrationSalutationsDismountingBowing Before David

And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.

Verse ConceptsFeetBowing Before David

Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesFear, Caused ByAnxiety, Examples OfOne DayPeople TumblingNo Strength Left

Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?

Verse ConceptsFaultlessnessSaul And David

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentEmployers, Bad ExamplesSick IndividualsWhere From?

Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationenemies, of Israel and JudahLand, As A Divine GiftIsrael Fleeing

Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceSuicideUncircumcisionAnxiety, Examples OfMaking FunApproval To Kill OneselfAbuse

And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

Verse Conceptsarmor

It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

Verse ConceptsBowingThe Third Day Of The WeekBowing Before DavidDust On The HeadThose Who Tore ClothesPraising Specific People

David inquired, "How were things going? Tell me!" He replied, "The people fled from the battle and many of them fell dead. Even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead!"

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingWhat Manner?

And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

Verse ConceptsCovering HeadsSide Of People

Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

Verse ConceptsBackSpearsStomachsPiercingsMotionlessnessComing To RestStriking To Death

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

And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

Verse ConceptsCripplesAccidentsFeetdisabilitiesLamenessNursesSuffering, Causes OfPeople TumblingHurt And Betrayalsaul

Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!

Verse ConceptsTributesBowing Before DavidBehold Me!saul

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
חבר 
Chabar 
Usage: 29

חבר 
Chabar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

חבר 
Chaber 
Usage: 12

חשּׁק 
Chishshuq 
Usage: 1

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

כּרע 
Kara` 
Usage: 36

עמית 
`amiyth 
Usage: 12

פּשׁט 
Pashat 
Usage: 43

רק ריק 
Reyq 
Usage: 14

ריע רע 
Rea` 
Usage: 187

רעה 
Re`ah 
Usage: 3

תּשׂוּמת 
T@suwmeth 
Usage: 1

ἀνήρ 
Aner 
man , husband , sir , fellow , not tr
Usage: 198

διοπετής 
Diopetes 
Usage: 1

ἑταῖρος 
hetairos 
Usage: 0

κοινωνία 
Koinonia 
Usage: 20

κοινωνός 
Koinonos 
Usage: 9

μετοχή 
metoche 
Usage: 1

μέτοχος 
metochos 
Usage: 6

συγκληρονόμος 
Sugkleronomos 
Usage: 4

συγκοινωνέω 
Sugkoinoneo 
have fellowship with , communicate with , be partaker of
Usage: 3

συμμαθητής 
Summathetes 
Usage: 1

συμπολίτης 
Sumpolites 
Usage: 1

συναιχμάλωτος 
sunaichmalotos 
Usage: 3

σύνδουλος 
sundoulos 
Usage: 5

συνεργός 
sunergos 
Usage: 13

συστρατιώτης 
Sustratiotes 
Usage: 2

τοιοῦτος 
Toioutos 
such , such thing , such an one , like , such a man , such a fellow
Usage: 51

τοῦτον 
Touton 
this , him , that , this fellow , the same
Usage: 50

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