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A recent edit gives the meaning of Nabal's name as "revulsion". The usual scholarly meaning is "fool" or "foolish", or some variant of "person whose behavior is awful" as can be seen in the following examples: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. I'm not seeing any examples of "revulsion" outside of the current source cited, which is an Artscroll commentary. For anyone who might be unfamiliar, ArtScroll is not a mainstream academic outlet, but an outlet with a specifically Orthodox Jewish outlook, which has a very different scholarly philosophy than mainstream biblical scholars.
For this reason, in light of the WP:RS policy, most certainly the first sentence of the article, if it addresses the etymology of the name at all, should do so from the mainstream scholarly perspective. Alephb (talk) 00:24, 16 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
