Lexicon :: Strong's G4098 - piptō

Then Abram fell facedown and God spoke with him:

Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ”

When Judah and his brothers reached Joseph’s house, he was still there. They fell to the ground before him.

“Dan will be a snake by the road,

a viper beside the path,

that bites the horse’s heels

so that its rider falls backward.

“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.”

The LORD directed Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD; otherwise many of them will die.

“If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.[fn]

The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about three thousand men fell dead that day among the people.

Fire came from the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell facedown.

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

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

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

“I will turn[fn] against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.

“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.

“Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt? ”

Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.

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

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

“Don’t go, because the LORD is not among you and you will be defeated by your enemies.

When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.

But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “God, God who gives breath to all,[fn] when one man sins, will you vent your wrath on the whole community? ”

“Get away from this community so that I may consume them instantly.” But they fell facedown.

Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting. They fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

“If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

“If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen down on the road, do not ignore it; help him lift it up.

“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.

“Neither,” he replied. “I have now come as commander of the LORD’s army.”

Then Joshua bowed with his face to the ground in homage and asked him, “What does my lord want to say to his servant? ”

“When there is a prolonged blast of the horn and you hear its sound, have all the troops give a mighty shout. Then the city wall will collapse, and the troops will advance, each man straight ahead.”

So the troops shouted, and the rams’ horns sounded. When they heard the blast of the ram’s horn, the troops gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. The troops advanced into the city, each man straight ahead, and they captured the city.

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown to the ground before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

The LORD then said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen facedown?

The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was twelve thousand ​— ​all the people of Ai.

As a result, ten tracts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which are beyond the Jordan,[fn]

The servants waited until they became embarrassed and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upstairs room. So they took the key and opened the doors ​— ​and there was their lord lying dead on the floor!

Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth of the Nations, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come and I will show you the man you are looking for.” So he went in with her, and there was Sisera lying dead with a tent peg through his temple!

He collapsed, he fell, he lay down between her feet;

he collapsed, he fell between her feet;

where he collapsed, there he fell ​— ​dead.

When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, “Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and with them was their army of about fifteen thousand men, who were all those left of the entire army of the people of the east. Those who had been killed were one hundred twenty thousand armed men.

but Abimelech pursued him, and Gaal fled before him. Numerous bodies were strewn as far as the entrance of the city gate.

they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and executed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim died.

When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD went up in its flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown on the ground.

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” He pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the leaders and all the people in it. And those he killed at his death were more than those he had killed in his life.

In those days, there was no king in Israel, and the Danite tribe was looking for territory to occupy. Up to that time no territory had been captured by them among the tribes of Israel.

Early that morning, the woman made her way back, and as it was getting light, she collapsed at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was.

There were eighteen thousand men who died from Benjamin; all were warriors.

All the Benjaminites who died that day were twenty-five thousand armed men; all were warriors.