nevala · outrage, folly

What it means

nevala (נְבָלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “outrage, folly”.

Outrage, disgraceful folly: a shameful act that gravely offends the whole community.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A shameful deed that offends everyone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• infamy ×4
• outrage ×4
• disgraceful thing ×2
• folly ×2
• vileness ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 34:7

  The sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard it, and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done an outrage in Israel by lying with the daughter of Jacob, and such a thing is not done.

• Deuteronomy 22:21

  then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Joshua 7:15

  And it shall be that the one who is taken with the things devoted to destruction shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of YHWH and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

• Judges 19:23

  And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do evil, please; since this man has come into my house, do not commit this infamy.

• Judges 19:24

  Look, my daughter, the virgin, and his concubine: let me bring out them and humiliate them and do to them what is good in your eyes; but to this man do not do the deed of this infamy.”

• Judges 20:6

  So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the field of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed infamy and vileness in Israel.

• Judges 20:10

  And we will take ten men of a hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to take provisions for the people, so that they may act, when they come to Geba of Benjamin, according to all the infamy that it has done in Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 25:25

  Please do not let my lord set his heart on this wicked man, on Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and outrage is with him. But I, your servant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

• 2 Samuel 13:12

  She said to him, “No, my brother, do not humiliate me, for it is not done like this in Israel. Do not do this outrage.

• Job 42:8

  And now, take for yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves; and Job my servant will pray for you, for only him will I accept, so as not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”

• Isaiah 9:17

  Therefore Adonai does not rejoice over its young men, and on its orphans and its widows he has no compassion; for every one of them is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks infamy. For all this his anger has not turned back, and his hand is still stretched out.

• Isaiah 32:6

  For the fool speaks folly, and his heart does wickedness, to practice godlessness and to speak error against YHWH, to leave empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty he makes fail.

• Jeremiah 29:23

  because they have done an outrage in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and they have spoken a word in my name, falsehood, which I did not command them; and I am the one who knows, and a witness, declares YHWH.”