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Vileness

זֻלּוּתStrong’s H2149

zullut (zul-lut)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Zullut is the Hebrew word usually translated “vileness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.”
Psalms 12:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Vileness, worthlessness
How it's translated
  • vileness 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    זֻלּוּת zullut · vileness

    vileness, worthlessness

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “vileness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    VI'LENESS, noun

    1. Baseness; meanness; despicableness.
    2. Moral baseness or depravity; degradation by sin; extreme wickedness; as the vileness of mankind.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.