TRV
נָבֵל
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Hebrew Old Testament, this word appears as a verb across 25 occurrences, inflected in 16 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it.
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יִבּוֹל
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יִבֹּלוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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נָבֵל
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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נֹבֵל
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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נָבְלָה
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
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נָּבֶל
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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יְנַבֵּל
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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נִבַּלְתִּי
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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תְּנַבֵּל
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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מְנַבֵּל
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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תִּבֹּל
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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נָבֹל
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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נְבֹל
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
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נֹבֶלֶת
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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נֹבֶלֶת
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
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נָבַלְתָּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 21 verses across 11 of the 39 books. Most frequent in Isaiah (8 verses); never once in the other 28.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.