Strong's #5039: nbalah (pronounced neb-aw-law')

feminine of 5036; foolishness, i.e. (morally) wickedness; concretely, a crime; by extension, punishment:--folly, vile, villany.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nebâlâh

1) senselessness, folly

1a) disgraceful folly

1a1) of immorality, profane actions

1b) disgrace, contumely disgrace

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H5036

Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

 

Genesis 34:7: "and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with"
Deuteronomy 22:21: "that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house:"
Joshua 7:15: "of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel."
Judges 19:23: "mine house, do not this folly."
Judges 19:24: "do not so vile a thing."
Judges 20:6: "for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel."
Judges 20:10: "to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel."
1 Samuel 25:25: "for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with"
2 Samuel 13:12: "not thou this folly."
Job 42:8: "will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken"
Isaiah 9:17: "and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger"
Isaiah 32:6: "For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice"
Jeremiah 29:23: "Because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors'"