σκῆπτρον χρυσείοις ἥλοισι πεπαρμένον → sceptre pierced with golden studs, staff studded with golden nails
from בָּלָה; properly, a failure; by implication nothing; usually (adverb) not at all; also lest: lest, neither, no, none (that...), not (any), nothing.
