Usage example or Dictionary entry for נקלה?

Question

I'm reading a 12th-Century translation into Hebrew of Aesop's Fables (משלי שועלים, author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berechiah_ha-Nakdan). The first line of the first fable is > _אריה זקן היה חולך וכסליו מלאו _נִקְלֶה I'd translate this as "The old lion was sick and his loins were full of {{נִקְלֶה}}". But is it right to say that something is מלאו of {{something singular}} or {{adjective}}? I don't understand the syntax of the final phrase. I've consulted the BDB & Jastrow but no suitable definition of נִקְלֶה comes up. If I google the word, an entry on Morfix comes up, but without any usage examples. > נִקְלֶה: despicable, contemptible, abominable Is this word familiar to anyone? Does it come up in the commentaries? If someone could show me another place where the word is used or an entry in a dictionary, I would appreciate it. ** The pointing of נִקְלֶה may be off. I've reproduced the vowels given in a text typeset by Catholics in Prague of the 1600s--they make pointing mistakes extremely often throughout the text.

Answer 1

The Hebrew says his loin, or basket, singular

A dictionary set of options includes:

to toast, to roast [we-future]

to be toasted, to be parched [he-past; masc-sing-present; we-future]

to be disgraced [masc-sing-present; we-future]

easy [adj-fem-sing]

despicable, dishonorable, trivial, trifle [adj-masc-sing; adj-fem-sing]

Since this is poetry, it could be translated something like "the Lion was old and sick (is that a hey?), and his loin (intention) was filled with treachery.

Amazing Grace is usually translated with נִקְלֶה as "a wretch":

"חסד מופלא, כמה מתוק הוא הקול, אשר הציל אדם נקלה שכמותי"