(BA) nblh

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The outline below is adapted from BDB.

nblh: noun feminine, senselessness (as shown in disregard of moral and religious claims), especially of disgraceful sins; also disgrace

• 1. disgraceful folly, especially of sins of unchastity
  • often in the phrase ʕśh nblh byśrʔl, i.e. do a thing disgraceful according to Israel's standard
  • also of inhospitable churlishness
  • of profane action
  • of senseless and irreligious language
• 2. contumely, disgrace
  • Job 42:8, of Y', ʕśwt ʔmkm nblh, i.e. deal out to you disgrace, expose you and punish you as nblym (compare 2 Samuel 3:33, under nabal), because of your utterances about me.

Related words: nbl, nblwt.

Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; and Briggs, Charles A. (1907). A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic, Based on the Lexicon of William Gesenius, as Translated by Edward Robinson, Late Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York.

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