Naboth, a Jew, who was stoned by order of Ahab, king of Israel, because he refused to sell him his vineyard, an outrage for which Ahab was visited by Divine judgment; is symbol, in the regard of the Jews, of the punishment sure to overtake all rich oppressors of the poor.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Nabob * Nachtigal, Gustav