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# נַבְלוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5040

**immodesty** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

immodesty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5040/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַבְלוּת: n.f. immodesty, shamelessness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5040/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. immodesty, shamelessness, lewdness of Isr. under fig. of adulteress Ho 2:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lewdness (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 2:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.12/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֛ה אֲגַלֶּ֥ה אֶת־נַבְלֻתָ֖הּ לְעֵינֵ֣י מְאַהֲבֶ֑יהָ וְאִ֖ישׁ לֹֽא־יַצִּילֶ֥נָּה מִיָּדִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and now I.will.uncover (et) lewdness her to the.eyes of her.lovers and anyone not he will.deliver.her from hand my

*JPS 1917:* And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of My hand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5040.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5040/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).