Occurrences
Nâbâl occurs 18 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (2), 2 Samuel (2), Job (2), Psalms (5), Proverbs (3), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (1)
- Deuteronomy 32:6 — Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish (נָבָ֖ל) people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
- Deuteronomy 32:21 — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish (נָבָ֖ל) nation.
- 2 Samuel 3:33 — And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool (נָבָ֖ל) dieth?
- 2 Samuel 13:13 — And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools (הַנְּבָלִ֖ים) in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
- Job 2:10 — But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women (הַנְּבָלוֹת֙) speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
- Job 30:8 — They were children of fools (נָ֭בָל), yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
- Psalms 14:1 — The fool (נָבָ֣ל) hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
- Psalms 39:8 — Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish (נָ֝בָ֗ל).
- Psalms 53:1 — The fool (נָבָ֣ל) hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
- Psalms 74:18 — Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish (נָ֝בָ֗ל) people have blasphemed thy name.
- Psalms 74:22 — Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man (נָ֝בָ֗ל) reproacheth thee daily.
- Proverbs 17:7 — Excellent speech becometh not a fool (לְנָבָ֣ל): much less do lying lips a prince.
- Proverbs 17:21 — He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool (נָבָֽל) hath no joy.
- Proverbs 30:22 — For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool (וְ֝נָבָ֗ל) when he is filled with meat;
- Isaiah 32:5 — The vile person (לְנָבָ֖ל) shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
- Isaiah 32:6 — For the vile person (נָבָל֙) will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
- Jeremiah 17:11 — As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool (נָבָֽל).
- Ezekiel 13:3 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish (הַנְּבָלִ֑ים) prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!