Leviticus 21:18
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
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Joshua 6:20
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.
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נָפַל
nâphal · naw-fal'
1 times translated as this KJV form435 total Strong's occurrences
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down.
Strong's first: Joshua 6:20Strong's last: Joshua 6:20
Open full H5307 profile →שָׁחָה
shâchâh · shaw-khaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences
to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
Strong's KJV usage: bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
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Strong's first: Numbers 22:31Strong's last: Numbers 22:31
Open full H7812 profile →תַּחַת
tachath · takh'-ath
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: as, beneath, × flat, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room, for...sake, stead of, under, × unto, × when...was mine, whereas, (where-) fore, with.
Strong's first: Joshua 6:5Strong's last: Joshua 6:5
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H8478
And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
H5307
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.
English meaning and historical usage.
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flat
FLAT, adjective [Latin latus, broad; Gr.; Eng. blade.]
1. Having an even surface, without risings or indentures, hills or valleys; as flat land.
2. Horizontal; level; without inclination; as a flat roof; or with a moderate inclination or slope; for we often apply the word to the roof of a house that is not steep, though inclined.
3. Prostrate; lying the whole length on the ground. He fell or lay flat on the ground.
4. Not elevated or erect; fallen.
Cease t'admire, and beauty's plumes fall flat
5. Level with the ground; totally fallen.
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat
6. In painting, wanting relief or prominence of the figures.
7. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as fruit flat to the taste.
8. Dull; unanimated; frigid; without point or spirit; applied to discourses and compositions. The sermon was very flat
9. Depressed; spiritless; dejected.
I feel - my hopes all flat
10. Unpleasing; not affording gratification.
How flat and insipid are all the pleasures of this life!
11. Peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. He gave the petitioner a flat denial.
Thus repulsed, our final hope is flat despair.
12. Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as a flat sound.
13. Low, as the prices of goods; or dull, as sales.
FLAT, noun
1. A level or extended plain. In America, it is applied particularly to low ground or meadow that is level, but it denotes any land of even surface and of some extent.
2. A level ground lying at a small depth under the surface of water; a shoal; a shallow; a strand; a sand bank under water.
3. The broad side of a blade.
4. Depression of thought or language.
5. A surface without relief or prominences.
6. In music, a mark of depression in sound. A flat denotes a fall or depression of half a tone.
7. A boat, broad and flat-bottomed. A flat-bottomed boat is constructed for conveying passengers or troops, horses, carriages and baggage.
FLAT, verb transitive
1. To level; to depress; to lay smooth or even; to make broad and smooth; to flatten.
2. To make vapid or tasteless.
3. To make dull or unanimated.
FLAT, verb intransitive
1. To grow flat; to fall to an even surface.
2. To become insipid, or dull and unanimated.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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