# H5309 נֶפֶל

נֶפֶל (nephel), Strong’s H5309: something fallen, i.e. an abortion KJV: untimely birth.. Occurs 3 times.

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*nephel* — something fallen, i.e. an abortion

KJV: untimely birth.

Derived from [נָפַל nâphal](https://besorah.bible/word/H5307) (to fall, in a great variety of applications)

Occurs 3 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נֵ֫פֶל n.m. untimely birth, abortion

## Where it occurs
- [Psalms 58:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/58?v=9) — Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
- [Job 3:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/3?v=16) — or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
- [Ecclesiastes 6:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/6?v=3) — If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not…