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נָבִיא H5030

nâbîyʼ

naw-bee'

from נָבָא; a prophet or (generally) inspired man; prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

נָבִיא 306 n.m. spokesman, speaker, prophet
1 genuine prophet of י׳
2 false prophets
3 heathen prophets

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


288 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Amos 2:11
    And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
  • Amos 2:12
    But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
  • Amos 3:7
    Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
  • Amos 7:14
    Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
  • Micah 3:5
    Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
  • Micah 3:6
    Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
  • Micah 3:11
    The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
  • Habakkuk 1:1
    The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
  • Habakkuk 3:1
    A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
  • Zephaniah 3:4
    Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.