# H5034 נָבֵל

נָבֵל (nâbêl), Strong’s H5034: to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace KJV: disgrace, dishounour, lightly…

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*nâbêl* — to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace

KJV: disgrace, dishounour, lightly esteem, fade (away, -ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do…

Occurs 25 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נָבֵל vb. sink or drop down, languish, wither and fall, fade
- Qal
- 1 sink or drop down
- 2 usu. fall like a leaf, or flower wither and fall, fade
- נָבַל vb
- נָבַל vb. be senseless, foolish
- Qal if thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself
- Pi. regard or treat as a נָבָל (q.v.), i.e. with contumely

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 18:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=18) — You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not…
- [Deuteronomy 32:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=15) — But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned…
- [2 Samuel 22:46](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=46) — The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.
- [Isaiah 1:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=30) — For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
- [Isaiah 24:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=4) — The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
- [Isaiah 28:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/28?v=1) — Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the…
- [Isaiah 28:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/28?v=4) — The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig…
- [Isaiah 34:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/34?v=4) — All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade…
- [Isaiah 40:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=7) — The grass withers, the flower fades, because the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
- [Isaiah 40:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=8) — The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”