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