Words the Bible translates as scoundrel
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- beliyya'alבְּלִיַּעַלruinous worthlessness: the good-for-nothing quality that makes a person or a plan both useless and destructive
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- destruction: deadly ruin, pictured in poetry as a flood that engulfs a person and drags them toward death
- navalנָבָלthe sacrilegious scoundrel: one whose conduct ruptures the covenantal and communal order, not a person of low intelligence
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