Bible Names

Nabal: meaning of the name

Nabal means “fool; senseless.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Nabal in Hebrew and Greek

נָבָל H5037

Nâbâl (naw-bawl') — Nabal, an Israelite

the same as H5036 (נָבָל); dolt;

Who named Nabal in the Bible

Nabal in Scripture

“Nabal” appears in 18 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 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 understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

  • 1 Samuel 25:4

    And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

  • 1 Samuel 25:5

    And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:

  • 1 Samuel 25:9

    And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

  • 1 Samuel 25:10

    And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

  • 1 Samuel 25:14

    But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

  • 1 Samuel 25:19

    And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

  • 1 Samuel 25:25

    Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.