Lexical Summary nabal: foolish, senseless Original Word: נָבָלTransliteration: nabal Phonetic Spelling: (naw-bawl') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: foolish, senseless Meaning: foolish, senseless Strong's Concordance foolish, vile person From nabel; stupid; wicked (especially impious) -- fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person. see HEBREW nabel Brown-Driver-Briggs H5036. nabal I. נָבָל adjective foolish, senseless, especially of the man who has no perception of ethical and religious claims, and with collateral idea of ignoble, disgraceful; — absolute ׳נ 2 Samuel 3:33 14t.; masculine plural נְבָלִים 13:13; Ezekiel 13:3 (ᵐ5 Co מִלִּבָּם); feminine plural נְבָלוֺת Job 2:10; — senseless, especially of religious and moral insensibility: נ ׳עַם Deuteronomy 32:6 (of Israel, unappreciative of J.'s benefits; opposed to חָכָם), so of heathen nation Psalm 74:18 (blaspheming name of ׳י), נ ׳גּוֺי Deuteronomy 32:21 ("" עָם לֹא); הַנּ ׳הַנְּבִאִים Ezekiel 13:3 (si vera lectio, see above); elsewhere as substantive (impious and presumptuous) fool, Isaiah 32:5 (opposed to נָדִיב noble-minded), characterized as at once irreligious and churlish, 32:6; denying God Psalm 14:1 = 53:2; insulting God 74:22, and God's servant 39:9; Proverbs 17:7 arrogant speech becometh not the (impious and presumptuous) fool (whose faults it only makes the more conspicuous), much less do lying lips him that this is noble (נדיב), 17:21 ("" כְּסִיל), 30:22 לחם ישׂבע כי ונבל (one of the things under which the earth trembles), נָבָל בְּנֵי Job 30:8 i.e. ignoble men ("" בְלִישֵֿׁם בְּנֵי); as one who might be expected to have a contumelious end, נ ׳הַכְּמוֺת אבנר ימות 2 Samuel 3:33 was Abner (destined) to die, as a ׳נ dieth ? of the man who amasses riches unjustly נבל יהיה ובאחריתו Jeremiah 17:11 i.e. will prove himself to be a ׳נ; as acting immorally (with collateral idea of disgracefully) 2 Samuel 13:13 בישׂראל הַנְּבָלִים כְּאַחַד תהיה ואתה (compare נְבָלָה); feminine only in הַנְּבָלוֺת אַחַת כְּדַבֵּר Job 2:10 (of Job's wife). compare DrDeuteronomy 22:21. 32, 6. 15.21; Psalt. 457. |
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