Be senseless
נָבַלStrong’s H5034naval (na-val)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naval is the Hebrew word usually translated “it withers”, “withering” and “it will wither”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.”
Meaning
- To be senseless, be foolish(Qal) to be foolish · (Piel)
- To sink or drop down, languish, wither and fall, fade(Qal)
How it's translated
- it withers 3
- withering 3
- it will wither 3
- it has withered 2
- certainly 1
- you will wear yourself out 1
- and he treated with contempt 1
- they withered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Psalms 3
- Jeremiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- 2 Samuel 22:46Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
- Job 14:18And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
- Psalms 1:3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
- Psalms 18:45The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
- Psalms 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Hebrew dictionary
נָבַל naval · be senseless
1) to be senseless, be foolish 1a) (Qal) to be foolish 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to regard or treat as foolish 1b2) to treat with contempt
נָבֵל navel · to wither
1) to sink or drop down, languish, wither and fall, fade 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to sink or drop down 1a2) to fall, wither and fall, fade 1a3) to droop
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wither” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WITHER, verb intransitive
- To fade; to lose its native freshness; to become sapless; to dry.“It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring” Ezekiel 17:9
- To waste; to pine away; as animal bodies; as a withered hand. Matthew 12:10
- To lose or want animal moisture.
All definitions and other forms of “wither”
WITHER, verb transitive
- To cause to fade and become dry; as, the sun withereth the grass. James 1:11
- To cause to shrink, wrinkle and decay, for want of animal moisture.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.