Lexical Definition

‎נָבָל‎ nâbâl (naw-bawl') foolish ^H:A
from ‎נָבֵל‎

fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.

• stupid
• wicked (especially impious)

1) foolish, senseless, fool

See Greek: ἀπαίδευτος · ἀσύνετος · ἄφρων · μωρός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

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 2Sam 3:33 + 14 t.; masculine plural ‎נְבָלִים‎ 2Sam 13:13; Ezek 13:3 (ᵐ5 Co ‎מִלִּבָּם‎); feminine plural ‎נְבָלוֺת‎ Job 2:10 — senseless, especially of religious and moral insensibility: ‎׳‎‎עַם נ‎ Deut 32:6 (of Israel, unappreciative of J.'s benefits; opposed to ‎חָכָם‎), so of heathen nation Ps 74:18 (blaspheming name of ‎׳‎‎י‎), ‎׳‎‎גּוֺי נ‎ Deut 32:21 (|| ‎לֹא עָם‎); ‎׳‎‎הַנְּבִאִים הַנּ‎ Ezek 13:3 (si vera lectio, see above); elsewhere as substantive (impious and presumptuous) fool, Isa 32:5 (opposed to ‎נָדִיב‎ noble-minded), characterized as at once irreligious and churlish, vIsa 32:6 denying God Ps 14:1 = Ps 53:2* insulting God Ps 74:22, and God's servant Ps 39:9*; Prov 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), vProv 17:21 (|| ‎כְּסִיל‎), Prov 30:22 ‎ונבל כי ישׂבע לחם‎ (one of the things under which the earth trembles), ‎בְּנֵי נָבָל‎ Job 30:8 i.e. ignoble men (|| ‎בְּנֵי בְלִישֵֿׁם‎); as one who might be expected to have a contumelious end, ‎ימות אבנר‎ ‎׳‎‎הַכְּמוֺת נ‎ 2Sam 3:33 was Abner (destined) to die, as a ‎׳‎‎נ‎ dieth ? of the man who amasses riches unjustly ‎ובאחריתו יהיה נבל‎ Jer 17:11 i.e. will prove himself to be a ‎׳‎‎נ‎; as acting immorally (with collateral idea of disgracefully) 2Sam 13:13 ‎ואתה תהיה כְּאַחַד‎ ‎הַנְּבָלִים בישׂראל‎ (compare ‎נְבָלָה‎); feminine only in ‎כְּדַבֵּר אַחַת‎ ‎הַנְּבָלוֺת‎ Job 2:10 (of Job's wife). compare Dr^{Deut 22:21. 32, 6. 15.21}; Psalt. 457.

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