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title: נָבָל — Nabal · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָבָל (5037), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 22 times: Nabal. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָבָל

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«נָבָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Nabal** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 22 times · **Key:** 5037 · **BDB:** נָבָל²

### Glosses

Nabal (12); of.Nabal (8); \[is\].Nabal (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Nabal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5037/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5037/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (on popular etymol. see 1 S 25:25 infr.);—a churlish man of Carmel, whose widow David married 1 S 25:3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 19, 25(×2) (כִּשְׁמוֹ כֶּן־ה֔וּא נָבָל שְׁמוֹ וּנְבָלָה עִמּוֹ), v 26 + 10 times 1 S + 2 S 2:2; 3:3. 𝔊 Ναβαλ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָבָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5037/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 25:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.4/)

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וַיִּשְׁמַ֥ע דָּוִ֖ד בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר כִּֽי־גֹזֵ֥ז נָבָ֖ל אֶת־צֹאנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard David in the wilderness (dm).that \[was\].shearing Nabal (et) sheep his

*JPS 1917:* And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

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[1 Samuel 25:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.38/)

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וַיְהִ֖י כַּעֲשֶׂ֣רֶת הַיָּמִ֑ים וַיִּגֹּ֧ף יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־נָבָ֖ל וַיָּמֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and it.was about the.ten the days and he.struck Yahweh (et) Nabal and he.died

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, so that he died.

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