Limitless Word
נָבָלnâbâl/naw-bawl'/
HebrewH503618 occurrences (KJV)

stupid; wicked (especially impious)

KJV renders it: fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.

Where it appears

  • Deut 32:6Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
  • Deut 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
  • 2 Sam 3:33The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
  • 2 Sam 13:13As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”
  • Job 2:10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
  • Job 30:8They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
  • Ps 14:1For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
  • Ps 39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
  • Ps 53:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
  • Ps 74:18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
  • Ps 74:22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
  • Prov 17:7Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
  • Prov 17:21He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
  • Prov 30:22For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;
  • Isa 32:5The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
  • Isa 32:6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
  • Jer 17:11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the middle of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
  • Ezek 13:3Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.