Strong's Hebrew · H5034

H5034 nâbêl

נָבֵל

naw-bale'

disgrace, dishounour, lightly esteem, fade (away, -ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, [idiom] surely, make vile, wither.

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When nâbêl is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

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

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 25 times in Scripture

Job 14:18

“But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,”

Isaiah 24:4

“The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.”

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.”

Exodus 18:18

“Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.”

Psalms 1:3

“He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.”

2 Samuel 22:46

“Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.”

Isaiah 40:7

“The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.”

Isaiah 40:8

“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.””

When nâbêl is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what nâbêl means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Job 14:18 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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