5039. nebalah

Lexicon

nebalah: Folly, foolishness, disgrace, senselessness

Original Word: נְבָלָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: nbalah
Pronunciation: neh-bah-LAH
Phonetic Spelling: (neb-aw-law')
KJV: folly, vile, villany
NASB: disgraceful thing, folly, act of folly, disgraceful act, disgraceful acts, foolishly, foolishness
Word Origin: [feminine of H5036 (נָבָל - fool)]

1. foolishness, i.e. (morally) wickedness
2. concretely, a crime
3. by extension, punishment

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

folly, vile, villany

Feminine of nabal; foolishness, i.e. (morally) wickedness; concretely, a crime; by extension, punishment -- folly, vile, villany.

see HEBREW nabal

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from nabal
Definition
senselessness, disgrace
NASB Translation
act of folly (2), disgraceful act (1), disgraceful acts (1), disgraceful thing (3), folly (3), foolishly (1), foolishness (1), nonsense (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נְבָלָה noun feminine senselessness (as shewn in disregard of moral and religious claims), especially of disgraceful sins; also disgrace; — always absolute ׳נ; —

1 disgraceful folly, especially of sins of un-chastity Judges 19:23 (wanton deed GFM), so דְּבַר הַזּאֹת ׳הַנּ Judges 19:24, 2 Samuel 13:12; often בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל ׳עָשָׂה נ i.e. do a thing disgraceful according to Israel's standard: Genesis 34:7 (J), Deuteronomy 22:21 (compare Dr on meaning of word; only here of woman), Judges 20:26 (+ זִמָּה), Judges 20:10; Jeremiah 29:23 (compare לֹא יֵעָשֶׂה כֵּן בְּיִשְׂרָאֵלּ 2 Samuel 13:12); also of inhospitable churlishness 1 Samuel 25:25 (see I, II. נָבָל, and especially Isaiah 32:6); of profane action Joshua 7:15 (Achan; ׳עָשָׂה נ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל); of senseless and irreligious language Isaiah 9:16 דֹּבֵר Isaiah 32:6 (יְדַבֵּר).

2 contumely, disgrace ׳עֲשׂוֺת עִמָּכֶם נ Job 42:8 (of ׳י), i.e. deal out to you disgrace, expose you and punish you as נְבָלִים (compare 2 Samuel 3:33, below נָבָל), because of your utterances about me.

Forms and Transliterations

הַ֨נְּבָלָ֔ה הַנְּבָלָ֥ה הנבלה וּנְבָלָ֖ה ונבלה נְבָלָ֑ה נְבָלָ֔ה נְבָלָ֖ה נְבָלָ֜ה נְבָלָ֞ה נְבָלָ֣ה נְבָלָה֙ נבלה han·nə·ḇā·lāh hannəḇālāh hannevaLah nə·ḇā·lāh nəḇālāh nevaLah ū·nə·ḇā·lāh ūnəḇālāh unevaLah

Englishman's Concordance

Genesis 34:7
HEB: מְאֹ֑ד כִּֽי־ נְבָלָ֞ה עָשָׂ֣ה בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל
NAS: he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel
KJV: because he had wrought folly in Israel
INT: were very because A disgraceful had done Israel

Deuteronomy 22:21
HEB: כִּֽי־ עָשְׂתָ֤ה נְבָלָה֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִזְנ֖וֹת
NAS: she has committed an act of folly in Israel
KJV: because she hath wrought folly in Israel,
INT: because has committed an act Israel playing

Joshua 7:15
HEB: וְכִֽי־ עָשָׂ֥ה נְבָלָ֖ה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
NAS: he has committed a disgraceful thing in Israel.'
KJV: and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
INT: and because has committed A disgraceful Israel

Judges 19:23
HEB: תַּעֲשׂ֖וּ אֶת־ הַנְּבָלָ֥ה הַזֹּֽאת׃
NAS: do not commit this act of folly.
KJV: into mine house, do not this folly.
INT: No commit act likewise

Judges 19:24
HEB: תַעֲשׂ֔וּ דְּבַ֖ר הַנְּבָלָ֥ה הַזֹּֽאת׃
NAS: an act of folly against this
KJV: do not so vile a thing.
INT: commit an act of folly so

Judges 20:6
HEB: עָשׂ֛וּ זִמָּ֥ה וּנְבָלָ֖ה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
NAS: a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
KJV: lewdness and folly in Israel.
INT: have committed A lewd and disgraceful Israel

Judges 20:10
HEB: בִּנְיָמִ֔ן כְּכָל־ הַ֨נְּבָלָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה
NAS: [them] for all the disgraceful acts that they have committed
KJV: of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought
INT: of Benjamin for all the disgraceful they have committed

1 Samuel 25:25
HEB: נָבָ֣ל שְׁמ֔וֹ וּנְבָלָ֖ה עִמּ֑וֹ וַֽאֲנִי֙
NAS: is his name and folly is with him; but I your maidservant
KJV: [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I thine handmaid
INT: Nabal is his name and folly with I

2 Samuel 13:12
HEB: תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה אֶת־ הַנְּבָלָ֥ה הַזֹּֽאת׃
NAS: do not do this disgraceful thing!
KJV: in Israel: do not thou this folly.
INT: No do disgraceful for

Job 42:8
HEB: עֲשׂ֤וֹת עִמָּכֶם֙ נְבָלָ֔ה כִּ֠י לֹ֣א
NAS: that I may not do with you [according to your] folly, because
KJV: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that ye have not spoken
INT: do with folly because have not

Isaiah 9:17
HEB: פֶּ֖ה דֹּבֵ֣ר נְבָלָ֑ה בְּכָל־ זֹאת֙
NAS: is speaking foolishness. In [spite of] all
KJV: speaketh folly. For all this his anger
INT: mouth is speaking foolishness and every likewise

Isaiah 32:6
HEB: כִּ֤י נָבָל֙ נְבָלָ֣ה יְדַבֵּ֔ר וְלִבּ֖וֹ
NAS: speaks nonsense, And his heart
KJV: will speak villany, and his heart
INT: For A fool nonsense speaks and his heart

Jeremiah 29:23
HEB: אֲשֶׁר֩ עָשׂ֨וּ נְבָלָ֜ה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַיְנַֽאֲפוּ֙
NAS: they have acted foolishly in Israel,
KJV: Because they have committed villany in Israel,
INT: which have acted foolishly Israel committed

13 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5039
13 Occurrences

han·nə·ḇā·lāh — 4 Occ.
nə·ḇā·lāh — 7 Occ.
ū·nə·ḇā·lāh — 2 Occ.