נָבָלnâbâl
stupid; wicked (especially impious)
Pronunciation: naw-bawl' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5036
Meanings
foolish, senseless, especially of the man who has no perception of ethical and religious claims (2 Samuel 3:33; 2 Samuel 13:13; Ezekiel 13:3; Job 2:10; Deuteronomy 32:6)
Same root
- נָבֵלnâbêl · H5034to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace
- נָבָלNâbâl · H5037Nabal, an Israelite
- נְבָלָהnᵉbâlâh · H5039foolishness, i.e. (morally) wickedness; concretely, a crime; by extension, punishment
- נַבְלוּתnablûwth · H5040properly, disgrace, i.e. the (female) pudenda
- נְבַלָּטNᵉballâṭ · H5041Neballat, a place in Palestine
Where it appears
Appears 18 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 32:6 Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father who created you? Has he not made you and established you?
- Deuteronomy 32:21 They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God; they have provoked my anger with their useless idols. Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people; I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.
- 2 Samuel 3:33 Then the king sang this funeral song for Abner: “Should Abner have died as fools die?
- 2 Samuel 13:13 Where could I go in my shame? And you would be called one of the greatest fools in Israel. Please, just speak to the king about it, and he will let you marry me.”
- Job 2:10 But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.
- Job 30:8 They are nameless fools, outcasts from society.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).