Definition

a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol

Etymology

from H5034 (נָבֵל);

Where the KJV renders it

• (dead) body
• (dead) carcase
• dead of itself
• which died
• (beast) that (which) dieth of itself

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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