# H5036 נָבָל

נָבָל (nâbâl), Strong’s H5036: stupid; wicked (especially impious) KJV: fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.. Occurs 18 times.

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*nâbâl* — stupid; wicked (especially impious)

KJV: fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.

Derived from [נָבֵל nâbêl](https://besorah.bible/word/H5034) (to wilt)

Occurs 18 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נָבָל adj. foolish, senseless, esp. of the man who has no perception of ethical and religious claims, and with collat. idea of ignoble, disgraceful; elsewh. as subst. (impious and presumptuous) fool

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 32:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=6) — Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you…
- [Deuteronomy 32:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=21) — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will…
- [2 Samuel 3:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/3?v=33) — The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
- [2 Samuel 13:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/13?v=13) — As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore…
- [Isaiah 32:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/32?v=5) — The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
- [Isaiah 32:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/32?v=6) — For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against the…
- [Jeremiah 17:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/17?v=11) — As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of…
- [Ezekiel 13:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/13?v=3) — The Lord GOD says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
- [Psalms 14:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/14?v=1) — For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done…
- [Psalms 39:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/39?v=9) — Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.