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# נָבָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5037

**Nabal** — used 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Nabal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5037/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָבָל²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5037/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (on popular etymol. see 1 S 25:25 infr.);—a churlish man of Carmel, whose widow David married 1 S 25:3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 19, 25(×2) (כִּשְׁמוֹ כֶּן־ה֔וּא נָבָל שְׁמוֹ וּנְבָלָה עִמּוֹ), v 26 + 10 times 1 S + 2 S 2:2; 3:3. 𝔊 Ναβαλ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Nabal (12); of Nabal (8); \[is\] Nabal (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 25:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.4/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֥ע דָּוִ֖ד בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר כִּֽי־גֹזֵ֥ז נָבָ֖ל אֶת־צֹאנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard David in the wilderness (dm).that \[was\].shearing Nabal (et) sheep his

*JPS 1917:* And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

[1 Samuel 25:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.38/#tree)

וַיְהִ֖י כַּעֲשֶׂ֣רֶת הַיָּמִ֑ים וַיִּגֹּ֧ף יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־נָבָ֖ל וַיָּמֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and it.was about the.ten the days and he.struck Yahweh (et) Nabal and he.died

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, so that he died.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5037.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5037/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).