A DEED, an exploit — and, in one fixed legal phrase, a TRUMPED-UP CHARGE. The noun's ordinary company is exalted: make known his alilot among the peoples is said of the acts of God in Isaiah 12:4 and 1 Chronicles 16:8. ⭐ But alilot devarim — literally something like 'wanton deeds of words' — stands in two verses, and both are one case: Deuteronomy 22:14, where a husband invents a charge that his bride was not a virgin, and 22:17, where her father quotes the charge back at him in front of the elders. A deed large enough to be worth publishing and a fabrication large enough to kill someone are the same Hebrew noun. ⚠ No English version has made the literal phrase work; the KJV gives up gracefully with 'give occasions of speech against her', the ASV reads 'lay shameful things to her charge' and the NWT 1984 'charged her with notorious deeds'. ⭐ The one witness on either shelf that keeps the devarim — the WORDS — inside the accusation is the RV60, «faltas que den que hablar», faults that give people something to talk about; the RV 1909 it revised had only «le pusiere algunas faltas». → first discussed at Deut 22:14