Word

נָבָל

Nâbâl · H5037 · Hebrew · proper noun · 22 occurrences

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Person

Nabalfirst named in 1 Samuel 25:318 verses

Meanings

fool, impious person, wanton fool, wicked fool, scoundrel

Foolish person who has no respect for God or his fellow human beings but thinks highly of himself

Examples
1 Samuel 25:25 “Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and stupidity is with him; but I your slave did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.
Nabal

The first husband of Abigail, who later became David's wife

Examples
1 Samuel 25:3 (now the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was a Calebite),
1 Samuel 25:4 that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
1 Samuel 25:5 So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel and visit Nabal, and greet him in my name;

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 2 groups

כַּרְמְלִיfrom Karmel 4
אִישׁman, person, each 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

גַּזָזto shear 1
מוּתto die 1
עָנָהto answer 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָגַףto strike, to defeat 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

שֵׁםname 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 5 groups

אֵלto, toward 6
מִןfrom 2
כlike/as 2
לto/for 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 4 groups

אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 5
יָדhand, power 1
לֵבheart, mind 1
רַעevil, bad 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Foolish002001002010: The domain classification here reflects this lexeme's shared spelling with the common noun "fool" (נָבָל (nâbâl, H5036)), a connection the narrative itself makes explicit: Abigail describes her husband Nabal by saying "as his name is, so is he... Folly is with him" (1 Samuel 25:25).
Great002001002012: This entry carries no independent "Great" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of this lexeme (e.g. 1 Samuel 25:3-39) is the personal name Nabal, not an assertion of greatness. The domain is bundle-shared with the common noun נָבָל ("fool, vile person," נָבָל (nâbâl, H5036)).
Names of People003001007: נָבָל names Nabal, husband of Abigail, illustrated at 1 Samuel 25:3 ("the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail") and 1 Samuel 25:25 ("as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and stupidity is with him").

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5037. Nabal II. נָבָל proper name, masculine (on popular etymology see 1Sa 25:25 below);…

H5037. Nabal
II. נָבָל proper name, masculine (on popular etymology see 1Sa 25:25 below); — a churlish man of Carmel, whose widow David married 1Sa 25:3-4, 1Sa 25:5, 1Sa 25:9, 1Sa 25:10, 1Sa 25:14, 1Sa 25:19, 1Sa 25:25 (twice in verse) (עִמּוֺ וּנְּבָלָה שְׁמוֺ נָבָל כֶּןהֿ֔וּא כִּשְׁמוֺ), 1Sa 25:26 1Sa 25:10t. 1Samuel + 2Sa 2:2; 2Sa 3:3. ᵐ5 Ναβαλ.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0