naval · Nabal

What it means

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

A rich man of Maon, husband of Abigail, who scorned David (1 Samuel 25). His name sounds the same as the Hebrew word for "fool".

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.

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×20
• 2 Samuel×2

• 1 Samuel 25:3

  The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful in form, but the man was harsh and evil in his deeds; he was a Calebite.

• 1 Samuel 25:4

  David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

• 1 Samuel 25:5

  David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, go to Nabal, and ask him in my name about his welfare.

• 1 Samuel 25:9

  David’s young men came and spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and they waited.

• 1 Samuel 25:10

  Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? Today many are the slaves who are breaking away, each from his master.

• 1 Samuel 25:14

  One young man of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to bless our master, and he flew at them.

• 1 Samuel 25:19

  She said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me; look, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

• 1 Samuel 25:25

  Please do not let my lord set his heart on this wicked man, on Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and outrage is with him. But I, your servant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

• 1 Samuel 25:26

  Now, my lord, as YHWH lives and as your soul lives, since YHWH has kept you from entering into guilt of blood and from saving yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies be like Nabal, and those who seek evil for my lord.

• 1 Samuel 25:34

  For indeed, as YHWH lives, the Elohim of Israel, who has kept me back from harming you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal, by the light of morning, so much as one who urinates against a wall.”

• 1 Samuel 25:36

  Abigail came to Nabal, and look, he had a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, and he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything, small or great, until the light of morning.

• 1 Samuel 25:37

  In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became like a stone.

• 1 Samuel 25:38

  About ten days later YHWH struck down Nabal, and he died.

• 1 Samuel 25:39

  David heard that Nabal had died, and he said, “Blessed be YHWH, who has defended the cause of my insult at the hand of Nabal, and has held back his servant from evil; and the evil of Nabal YHWH has returned on his own head.” David sent and spoke to Abigail to take her to himself as wife.

• 1 Samuel 27:3

  David stayed with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal’s wife, of Carmel.

• 1 Samuel 30:5

  David’s two wives had also been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

• 2 Samuel 2:2

  So David went up there, and also his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

• 2 Samuel 3:3

  and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

And 4 more times.