Hebrew adjective · H5036
נָבָל
nabalnaw-bawl'
foolish
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâbâl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5036is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5036
stupid; wicked (especially impious)
The King James renders it: fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nabal is rendered "foolish". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 32:6Is 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?
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
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 32:6נָבָ֖ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a fool8
- foolish4
- the fools2
- and a fool1
- for a fool1
- the foolish women1
- to a fool1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָבָא | naba | to prophesy | Uses115 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נָ֝בָ֗ל3
- נָבָ֖ל3
- נָבָ֣ל2
- נָבָֽל׃2
- הַנְּבָלוֹת֙1
- הַנְּבָלִ֖ים1
- הַנְּבָלִ֑ים1
- וְ֝נָבָ֗ל1
- לְנָבָ֣ל1
- לְנָבָ֖ל1
- נָ֭בָל1
- נָבָל֙1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular12HAamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular2HR/Aamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural2HTd/Aampa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Aamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine plural1HTd/Aafpa
Deuteronomy
two uses
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?
- נָבָ֖לnavaladjective · masculine singulartagged: foolish
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.
- נָבָ֖לnavaladjective · masculine singulartagged: foolish
2 Samuel
two uses
And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?
- נָבָ֖לnavaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
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.”
- הַנְּבָלִ֖יםhanevalimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the fools
Job
two uses
“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.
- הַנְּבָלוֹת֙hanevalotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the foolish women
A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
- נָ֭בָלnavoladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
Psalms
five uses
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
- נָבָ֣לnavaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
- נָ֝בָ֗לnavaladjective · masculine singulartagged: foolish
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
- נָבָ֣לnavaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
- נָ֝בָ֗לnavaladjective · masculine singulartagged: foolish
Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
- נָ֝בָ֗לnavaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
Proverbs
three uses
Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
- לְנָבָ֣לlenavalpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for a fool
A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
- נָבָֽל׃navaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
- וְ֝נָבָ֗לvenavalconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a fool
Isaiah
two uses
No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.
- לְנָבָ֖לlenavalpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to a fool
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.
- נָבָל֙navaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
Jeremiah
one use
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.”
- נָבָֽל׃navaladjective · masculine singulartagged: a fool
Ezekiel
one use
This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.
- הַנְּבָלִ֑יםhanevalimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the fools
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.