navot · Naboth

What it means

navot (נָבוֹת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Naboth”.

A name that, according to the lexicon, means "fruits." He is the man of Jezreel who would not give Ahab the inheritance of his fathers and was put to death by Jezebel's order (1 Kings 21).

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 Kings×19
• 2 Kings×3

• 1 Kings 21:1

  And it happened after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard that was in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, so that it may be mine for a garden of vegetables, for it is near, beside my house; and I will give you in its place a vineyard better than it; or, if it is good in your eyes, I will give you silver, the price of it.”

• 1 Kings 21:3

  Naboth said to Ahab, “Far be it from me, by YHWH, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

• 1 Kings 21:4

  Ahab went into his house resentful and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, when he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and did not eat bread.

• 1 Kings 21:6

  He spoke to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for silver; or if you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in its place’; and he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

• 1 Kings 21:7

  Jezebel his wife said to him, “You now exercise the kingship over Israel! Get up, eat bread, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

• 1 Kings 21:8

  She wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• 1 Kings 21:9

  And she wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the head of the people;

• 1 Kings 21:12

  They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people.

• 1 Kings 21:13

  And the two men, perverse men, came in and sat opposite him; and the perverse men testified against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed Elohim and the king.” So they took him out outside the city and stoned him with stones, and he died.

• 1 Kings 21:14

  Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:15

  And it happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for silver; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:16

  And it happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

• 1 Kings 21:18

  “Get up, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; look, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.

• 1 Kings 21:19

  And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH: Have you murdered and also taken possession?’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH: In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, the dogs will lick up your blood, yours too.’”

• 2 Kings 9:21

  Joram said, “Hitch up.” And his chariot was hitched up, and Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and they found him at the plot of Naboth the Jezreelite.

• 2 Kings 9:25

  He said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, throw him into the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how I and you were riding side by side behind Ahab his father, when YHWH lifted up against him this oracle:

• 2 Kings 9:26

  ‘Surely the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons I saw yesterday, declares YHWH, and I will repay you in this plot, declares YHWH.’ So now pick him up and throw him into the plot, according to the word of YHWH.”

And 4 more times.