1 Samuel 25:3 (KJV)

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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

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Cross-references

good. Pr 14:1 Pr 31:26 Pr 31:30 Pr 31:31

was churlish. 1Sa 25:10 1Sa 25:11 1Sa 25:17 Ps 10:3 Isa 32:5-7

and he was.{Wehoo calibbee,} literally, "and he was a Calebite;" but as the word {cailev} signifies a dog, the Septuagint has understood it as implying a man of canine disposition, and translated it, [kai anthropov kunikos,] "and he was a doggish man." It is understood in the same way by the Syriac and Arabic.

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