נָבָל

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 2 Sam 3,33 + 14 t.; masculine plural נְבָלִים 2 Sam 13,13; Ezk 13,3 (ᵐ5 Co מִלִּבָּם); feminine plural נְבָלוֺת Job 2,10 — senseless, especially of religious and moral insensibility: ׳עַם נ 5 Mos 32,6 (of Israel, unappreciative of J.'s benefits; opposed to חָכָם), so of heathen nation Sl 74,18 (blaspheming name of ׳י), ׳גּוֺי נ 5 Mos 32,21 (|| לֹא עָם); ׳הַנְּבִאִים הַנּ Ezk 13,3 (si vera lectio, see above); elsewhere as substantive (impious and presumptuous) fool, Es 32,5 (opposed to נָדִיב noble-minded), characterized as at once irreligious and churlish, vEs 32,6 denying God Sl 14,1 = Sl 53,2 insulting God Sl 74,22, and God's servant Sl 39,9; Ord 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), vOrd 17,21 (|| כְּסִיל), Ord 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 2 Sam 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) 2 Sam 13,13 ואתה תהיה כְּאַחַד הַנְּבָלִים בישׂראל (compare נְבָלָה); feminine only in כְּדַבֵּר אַחַת הַנְּבָלוֺת Job 2,10 (of Job's wife). compare Dr^{5 Mos 22,21. 32, 6. 15.21}; Psalt. 457.