Nâbêl — H5034

Definition

verb

to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace

1. to be senseless, be foolish
1. (Qal) to be foolish
2. (Piel)
1. to regard or treat as foolish
2. to treat with contempt
2. to sink or drop down, languish, wither and fall, fade
1. (Qal)
1. to sink or drop down
2. to fall, wither and fall, fade
3. to droop

Usually translated as

fade, fading, wither, disgrace, fall, falling, do foolishly, make vile, dishounour, lightly esteem, come to nought, surely

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• akatharsía (G167)
• apobállō (G577)
• apóllymi (G622)
• apopíptō (G634)
• aporrhíptō (G641)
• atimázō (G818)
• aphístēmi (G868)
• kataphtheírō (G2704)
• palaióō (G3822)
• píptō (G4098)
• phtheírō (G5351)
• phthorá (G5356)

Occurrences

Nâbêl occurs 24 times in 20 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Deuteronomy (1), 2 Samuel (1), Job (1), Psalms (3), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (8), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (1), Nahum (1)

• Exodus 18:18 — Thou wilt surely wear away (תִּבֹּ֔ל), both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
• Exodus 18:18 — Thou wilt surely wear away (נָבֹ֣ל), both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
• Deuteronomy 32:15 — But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed (וַיְנַבֵּ֖ל) the Rock of his salvation.
• 2 Samuel 22:46 — Strangers shall fade away (יִבֹּ֑לוּ), and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
• Job 14:18 — And surely the mountain falling cometh (יִבּ֑וֹל) to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
• Psalms 1:3 — And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither (יִבּ֑וֹל); and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
• Psalms 18:45 — The strangers shall fade away (יִבֹּ֑לוּ), and be afraid out of their close places.
• Psalms 37:2 — For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither (יִבּוֹלֽוּן) as the green herb.
• Proverbs 30:32 — If thou hast done foolishly (נָבַ֥לְתָּ) in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
• Isaiah 1:30 — For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth (נֹבֶ֣לֶת), and as a garden that hath no water.
• Isaiah 24:4 — The earth mourneth and fadeth away (נָֽבְלָה֙), the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
• Isaiah 24:4 — The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away (נָבְלָ֖ה), the haughty people of the earth do languish.
• Isaiah 28:1 — Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading (נֹבֵ֖ל) flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
• Isaiah 28:4 — And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading (נֹבֵל֙) flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
• Isaiah 34:4 — And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down (יִבּ֔וֹל), as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
• Isaiah 34:4 — And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off (כִּנְבֹ֤ל) from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
• Isaiah 34:4 — And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling (וּכְנֹבֶ֖לֶת) fig from the fig tree.
• Isaiah 40:7 — The grass withereth, the flower fadeth (נָ֣בֵֽל): because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
• Isaiah 40:8 — The grass withereth, the flower fadeth (נָ֣בֵֽל): but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
• Isaiah 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade (וַנָּ֤בֶל) as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
• Jeremiah 8:13 — I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade (נָבֵ֔ל); and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
• Jeremiah 14:21 — Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace (תְּנַבֵּ֖ל) the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
• Ezekiel 47:12 — And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade (יִבּ֨וֹל), neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
• Nahum 3:6 — And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile (וְנִבַּלְתִּ֑יךְ), and will set thee as a gazingstock.