STRONGS NUMBER H5036

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 Dr^{Deuteronomy 22:21. 32, 6. 15.21}; Psalt. 457.