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Lexicon :: Strong's H5037 - nāḇāl

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נָבָל
Transliteration
nāḇāl
Pronunciation
naw-bawl'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as נָבָל (H5036)
Strong’s Definitions

נָבָל Nâbâl, naw-bawl'; the same as H5036; dolt; Nabal, an Israelite:—Nabal.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H5037 in the following manner: Nabal (18x), Nabhal (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H5037 in the following manner: Nabal (18x), Nabhal (4x).

  1. Nabhal or Nabal = "fool"

    1. a man of Carmel who spurned David's messengers, then died of shock when he realised it might cause his death; his case was pleaded by his wife Abigail who became David's wife after his death

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָבָל Nâbâl, naw-bawl'; the same as H5036; dolt; Nabal, an Israelite:—Nabal.
STRONGS H5037: Abbreviations
II. נָבָל proper name, masculine (on popular etymology see 1 Samuel 25:25 below); — a churlish man of Carmel, whose widow David married 1 Samuel 25:3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 19, 25 (twice in verse) (כִּשְׁמוֺ כֶּןהֿ֔וּא נָבָל שְׁמוֺ וּנְּבָלָה עִמּוֺ), 1 Samuel 25:26 10 times 1 Samuel + 2 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 3:3. Greek Version of the LXX Ναβαλ.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

25:3; 25:4; 25:5; 25:9; 25:10; 25:14; 25:19; 25:25; 25:25; 25:26

2 Samuel

2:2; 3:3

H5037

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5037 matches the Hebrew נָבָל (nāḇāl),
which occurs 22 times in 18 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:3 - Now the name of the man was Naval; and the name of his wife Avigayil; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Kalev.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4 - David heard in the wilderness that Naval was shearing his sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:5 - David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Karmel, and go to Naval, and greet him in my name:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:9 - When David's young men came, they spoke to Naval according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10 - Naval answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Yishai? there are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - But one of the young men told Avigayil, Naval's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he railed at them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:19 - She said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she didn't tell her husband, Naval.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25 - Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Naval; for as his name is, so is he; Naval is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you did send.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26 - Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Naval.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - For in very deed, as the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Naval by the morning light so much as one man-child.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - Avigayil came to Naval; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Naval's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:37 - It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Naval, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:38 - It happened about ten days after, that the LORD struck Naval, so that he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:39 - When David heard that Naval was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Naval, and has kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Naval has the LORD returned on his own head. David sent and spoke concerning Avigayil, to take her to him as wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3 - David lived with Akhish at Gat, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Achino'am the Yizre`elite, and Avigayil the Karmelite, Naval's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:5 - David's two wives were taken captive, Achino'am the Yizre`elite, and Avigayil the wife of Naval the Karmelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:2 - So David went up there, and his two wives also, Achino'am the Yizre`elite, and Avigayil the wife of Naval the Karmelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:3 - and his second, Chileab, of Avigayil the wife of Naval the Karmelite; and the third, Avshalom the son of Ma`akhah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
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