Naval נָבָל

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Naval (Hebrew נָבָל, Strong's H5036) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “foolish”. It occurs 18 times in 18 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

foolish, senseless, fool

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	fool (7), foolish (5), fools (2), person (2), women (1), man (1)
BSB	fool (10), fools (2), o foolish (1), without understanding (1), foolish woman (1), senseless (1), how a foolish (1), foolish (1)

Every verse with Naval, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy 32:6
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?Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
Deuteronomy 32:21
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.They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

2 Samuel 3:33
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?
2 Samuel 13:13
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.Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

Job 2:10
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.“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

Psalm 14:1
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.The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
Psalm 39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
Psalm 53:1
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.The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
Psalm 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
Psalm 74:22
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

Proverbs 17:7
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
Proverbs 17:21
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

Isaiah 32:5
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.
Isaiah 32:6
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.For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

Jeremiah 17:11
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.Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

Ezekiel 13:3
Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).