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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.

  • 1 Samuel 19:24
    And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
  • 1 Samuel 22:5
    And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
  • 1 Samuel 28:6
    And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
  • 1 Samuel 28:15
    And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
  • 2 Samuel 7:2
    That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
  • 2 Samuel 12:25
    And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
  • 2 Samuel 24:11
    For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
  • 1 Kings 1:8
    But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
  • 1 Kings 1:10
    But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
  • 1 Kings 1:22
    And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.