And in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became like a stone — the Hebrew phrase 'vayyēkōlᵉdû lᵉbô' (his heart/courage died within him) suggests that Nabal's heart ceased to function as the seat of courage and life. His transformation into stone ('vayᵉhî lᵉʾeben') is both literal (stroke or cardiac failure) and symbolic of his inner hardness now made manifest.

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