נְבָלָה f. (b. h.; נָבַל) 1) meanness, obscenity. Treat. Der. Er. ch. II מְדַבְּרֵי נ׳ those talking obscenely. Ib. הדר בנ׳ עם אשתו who lives with his wife in an obscene manner; a. e.—Pl. נְבָלוֹת. Ex. R. s. 24 (ref. to Deut. XXXII, 6) עם נבל שעשו נ׳ וכ׳ ‘a disgraced people’, for they did disgraceful things, as it is said (Ps. LXXIX, 2), they made ‘the disgraced’ of thy people food &c. (taking נִבְלַת as if from נְבָלָה).—2) destruction. Gen. R. s. 38; Yalk. ib. 62 (play on וְנָבְלָה, Gen. XI, 7) משפתם אעשה (עמהם) נ׳ through their own lips I shall bring destruction upon them.
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נְבָלָה f. (b. h.; נָבַל ) 1) meanness, obscenity . Treat. Der. Er. ch. II מְדַבְּרֵי נ׳ those talking obscenely. Ib. הדר בנ׳ עם אשתו who lives with…
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- Jastrow, נָבָל I 1
- Tractate Derekh Eretz Rabbah 2:9
- Tractate Derekh Eretz Rabbah 2:12
- Jastrow, נַבְלוּת 1
- Shemot Rabbah 24:1
- Deuteronomy 32:6
- Psalms 79:2
- Jastrow, נְבָלָה 1
- Bereishit Rabbah 38:10
- Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 62:14
- Genesis 11:7
- Jastrow, נ׳ 1