Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H5037
נָבָל
Nabalnaw-bawl'
Nabal
22 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 H5037is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5037
Nabal, an Israelite
The King James renders it: Nabal.
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 "Nabal". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 25:3His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.
1 Samuel 25:3נָבָ֔ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty of the word's twenty-two uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Nabal19
- from Nabal1
- like Nabal1
- to Nabal1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 22, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- נָבָ֔ל4
- נָבָ֖ל4
- נָבָ֗ל2
- נָבָ֣ל2
- נָבָ֥ל2
- כְנָבָל֙1
- לְנָבָ֛ל1
- מִנָּבָ֔ל1
- נָבָ֛ל1
- נָבָ֜ל1
- נָבָ֡ל1
- נָבָל֙1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)19HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npm
1 Samuel
twenty uses
His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.
- נָבָ֔לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.
- נָבָ֖לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name
- נָבָ֔לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.
- נָבָ֛לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.
- נָבָ֜לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.
- נָבָ֔לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
- נָבָ֖לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.
- נָבָ֗לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
- נָבָ֣לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.
- כְנָבָל֙khenavalpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Nabal
Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
- לְנָבָ֛לlenavalpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Nabal
When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
- נָבָ֡לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
- נָבָל֙navalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these events, and his heart failed within him and he became like a stone.
- מִנָּבָ֔לminavalpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Nabal
About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.
- נָבָ֖לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking for her in marriage.
- נָבָל֒navalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
- נָבָ֗לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
- נָבָ֔לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
- נָבָ֖לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.
- נָבָ֥לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
2 Samuel
two uses
So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
- נָבָ֥לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;
- נָבָ֣לnavalproper noun (a name)tagged: Nabal
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.