נָבָל nâbâl
Meaning
stupid; wicked (especially impious)
In the King James Version: fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
Derivation: from H5034 (נָבֵל);
Where it is used
- Deuteronomy 32:6 Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
- Deuteronomy 32:21 They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
- 2 Samuel 3:33 And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?
- 2 Samuel 13:13 Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
- Job 2:10 “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- Job 30:8 A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
- Psalms 14:1 For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
- Psalms 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
- Psalms 53:1 For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
- Psalms 74:18 Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
- Psalms 74:22 Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
- Proverbs 17:7 Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
- Proverbs 17:21 A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
- Proverbs 30:22 a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
- Isaiah 32:5 No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.
- Isaiah 32:6 For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
- Jeremiah 17:11 Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
- Ezekiel 13:3 This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit yet have seen nothing.