Strong's #5037: Nabal (pronounced naw-bawl')

the same as 5036; dolt; Nabal, an Israelite:--Nabal.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nâbâl

Nabhal or Nabal = "fool"

1) a man of Carmel who spurned David' s messengers, then died of shock when he realised it might cause his death; his case was pleaded by his wife Abigail who became David' s wife after his death

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: the same as H5036

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

1 Samuel 25:3: "Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good"
1 Samuel 25:4: "heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep."
1 Samuel 25:5: "to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:"
1 Samuel 25:9: "came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name"
1 Samuel 25:10: " And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David?"
1 Samuel 25:14: "But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying,"
1 Samuel 25:19: "you. But she told not her husband Nabal."
1 Samuel 25:25: "regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for"
1 Samuel 25:25: "of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name,"
1 Samuel 25:26: "evil to my lord, be as Nabal."
1 Samuel 25:34: "and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning"
1 Samuel 25:36: "And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast"
1 Samuel 25:36: "in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he"
1 Samuel 25:37: "in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him"
1 Samuel 25:38: "after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died."
1 Samuel 25:39: "And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD,"
1 Samuel 25:39: "the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil:"
1 Samuel 25:39: "from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David"
1 Samuel 27:3: "the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife."
1 Samuel 30:5: "the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite."
2 Samuel 2:2: "Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite."
2 Samuel 3:3: "Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son"