naval · foolish, fool

What it means

naval (נָבָל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “foolish, fool”.

Foolish, a fool: not one who knows little, but one who lives without regard for God.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone who lives with no thought for God or others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fool ×12
• foolish ×5
• fools ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Deuteronomy 32:6

  Is it to YHWH you repay this, foolish and unwise people? Is he not your father, who acquired you? He made you and established you.

• Deuteronomy 32:21

  They have provoked me to jealousy with what is not El; they have provoked me to anger with their worthless idols. So I will provoke them to jealousy with what is not a people; with a foolish nation I will provoke them to anger.

• 2 Samuel 3:33

  And the king chanted a dirge over Abner and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

• 2 Samuel 13:13

  As for me, where could I carry my reproach? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel. Now then, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

• Job 2:10

  He said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we accept the good from Elohim too, and not accept the evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

• Job 30:8

  Sons of a fool, sons also without a name, they were beaten out of the land.

• Psalms 14:1

  For the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no Elohim.” They have become corrupt, they have made abominable their deeds; there is no one who does good.

• Psalms 39:8

  From all my transgressions deliver me; do not make me the reproach of the fool.

• Psalms 53:1

  For the director. On Mahalat. A maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no Elohim.” They have become corrupt and have done abominable injustice; there is no one who does good.

• Psalms 74:18

  Remember this: the enemy has reproached, YHWH, and a foolish people has spurned your name.

• Psalms 74:22

  Rise up, Elohim; plead your case; remember your reproach from the fool all the day.

• Proverbs 17:7

  A lip of excellence is not fitting for a fool, how much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

• Proverbs 17:21

  Whoever fathers a senseless son does it to his grief, and the father of a fool will not rejoice.

• Proverbs 30:22

  under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with bread;

• Isaiah 32:5

  The fool will no longer be called noble, nor will the cheat be said to be a man of rank.

• Isaiah 32:6

  For the fool speaks folly, and his heart does wickedness, to practice godlessness and to speak error against YHWH, to leave empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty he makes fail.

• Jeremiah 17:11

  A partridge that hatches what it did not lay is the one who makes riches and not by justice; in the middle of his days he will leave it, and at his end he will be a fool.

• Ezekiel 13:3

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Woe to the foolish prophets who walk after their own spirit, and without having seen!