Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
foolish
Usage: foolish, senseless, fool
Nabal means “vile person” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5036 — tachys (“swift”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5036 נָבָל (nabal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. nabal (naw-bawl') adj. 1. stupid 2. wicked (especially impious) It has 18 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include fool, fools, vile, and man. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
nabal (naw-bawl') adj. 1. stupid 2. wicked (especially impious) [from H5034] KJV: fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person. Root(s): H5034
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foolish
Usage: foolish, senseless, fool
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nabal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5036.
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5036, grouped by book.
Nabal (Strong's H5036) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "vile person". nabal (naw-bawl') adj. 1. stupid 2. wicked (especially impious)
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H5036 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5036 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fool, fools, vile, and man. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.