נְוָלוּnᵉvâlûw

refuse-heap (Ezra 6:11; Daniel 2:5; Daniel 3:29)

Pronunciation: nev-aw-loo' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5122

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 6:11 “Those who violate this decree in any way will have a beam pulled from their house. Then they will be lifted up and impaled on it, and their house will be reduced to a pile of rubble.
  • Daniel 2:5 But the king said to the astrologers, “I am serious about this. If you don’t tell me what my dream was and what it means, you will be torn limb from limb, and your houses will be turned into heaps of rubble!
  • Daniel 3:29 Therefore, I make this decree: If any people, whatever their race or nation or language, speak a word against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they will be torn limb from limb, and their houses will be turned into heaps of rubble. There is no other god who can rescue like this!”

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).