Dunghill
נְוָלוּStrong’s H5122nevalu (ne-va-lu)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nevalu is the Aramaic word usually translated “refuse-heap”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.”
Meaning
- Refuse-heap, dunghill, outhouse
How it's translated
- a refuse-heap 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:29In contextTherefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
- Ezra 6:11Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Aramaic dictionary
נְוָלוּ nevalu · dunghill
refuse-heap, dunghill, outhouse
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dunghill” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DUNGHILL, noun
- A heap of dung.
- A mean or vile abode.
- Any mean situation or condition.“He lifteth the beggar from the dunghill” 1 Samuel 2:8
- A term of reproach for a man meanly born. [Not used.]
All definitions and other forms of “dunghill”
DUNGHILL, adjective
Sprung from the dunghill; mean; low; base; vile.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.