נָבִיא
prophet
also: spokesman, speaker fuller range ↓
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Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
47 distinct verses where H5030 appears in the Construct state, across 13 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
Numbers 1 verse
1 Kings 10 verses
- 1 Kings 18:4 נְבִיאֵ֣י נְבִאִ֗ים n c mp cs n c mp for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
- 1 Kings 18:13 נְבִיאֵ֣י מִ/נְּבִיאֵ֨י n c mp cs prep + n c mp cs Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
- 1 Kings 18:19 נְבִיאֵ֨י וּ/נְבִיאֵ֤י n c mp cs conj + n c mp cs Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.
- 1 Kings 18:22 נָבִ֛יא וּ/נְבִיאֵ֣י n c ms conj + n c mp cs Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.
- 1 Kings 18:25 לִ/נְבִיאֵ֣י prep + n c mp cs Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
- 1 Kings 18:40 נְבִיאֵ֣י n c mp cs and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
- 1 Kings 19:10 נְבִיאֶ֖י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
- 1 Kings 19:14 נְבִיאֶ֖י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
- 1 Kings 22:22 נְבִיאָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
- 1 Kings 22:23 נְבִיאֶ֣י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 3:13 נְבִיאֵ֣י נְבִיאֵ֖י n c mp cs n c mp cs Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
- 2 Kings 10:19 נְבִיאֵ֣י n c mp cs Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
- 2 Kings 17:13 נביא/ו נְבִיאֵ֨י הַ/נְּבִיאִֽים n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs ptcl def.art + n c mp Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 5 verses
- 2 Chronicles 18:21 נְבִיאָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
- 2 Chronicles 18:22 נְבִיאֶ֣י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
- 2 Chronicles 20:20 בִ/נְבִיאָ֖י/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Yahweh your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 הַ/נָּבִ֑יא נְבִיאָֽי/ו ptcl def.art + n c ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Yahweh by his prophets.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16 בִּ/נְבִאָ֑י/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Nehemiah 3 verses
- Nehemiah 9:26 נְבִיאֶ֣י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
- Nehemiah 9:30 נְבִיאֶ֖י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
- Nehemiah 9:32 וְ/לִ/נְבִיאֵ֥/נוּ conj + prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
Psalms 1 verse
Jeremiah 11 verses
- Jeremiah 2:26 וּ/נְבִיאֵי/הֶֽם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
- Jeremiah 2:30 נְבִֽיאֵי/כֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Jeremiah 23:13 וּ/בִ/נְבִיאֵ֥י conj + prep + n c mp cs I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
- Jeremiah 23:14 וּ/בִ/נְבִאֵ֨י conj + prep + n c mp cs In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.
- Jeremiah 23:15 הַ/נְּבִאִ֔ים נְבִיאֵ֣י ptcl def.art + n c mp n c mp cs Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
- Jeremiah 23:26 הַ/נְּבִאִ֖ים וּ/נְבִיאֵ֖י ptcl def.art + n c mp conj + n c mp cs How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
- Jeremiah 27:9 נְבִיאֵי/כֶ֜ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:
- Jeremiah 27:16 נְבִֽיאֵי/כֶ֗ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
- Jeremiah 29:8 נְבִֽיאֵי/כֶ֥ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
- Jeremiah 32:32 וּ/נְבִֽיאֵי/הֶ֑ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 37:19 נְבִ֣יאֵי/כֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
Lamentations 3 verses
- Lamentations 2:9 נְבִיאֶ֕י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
- Lamentations 2:14 נְבִיאַ֗יִ/ךְ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2fs Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, But have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.
- Lamentations 4:13 נְבִיאֶ֔י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
Ezekiel 6 verses
- Ezekiel 13:2 נְבִיאֵ֥י לִ/נְבִיאֵ֣י n c mp cs prep + n c mp cs Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear you the word of Yahweh:
- Ezekiel 13:4 נְבִיאֶ֥י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
- Ezekiel 13:16 נְבִיאֵ֣י n c mp cs [to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 22:25 נְבִיאֶ֨י/הָ֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 22:28 וּ/נְבִיאֶ֗י/הָ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
- Ezekiel 38:17 נְבִיאֵ֣י n c mp cs Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?
Micah 1 verse
Zephaniah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“prophet” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun נביא (nâbîyʼ). Beyond “prophet” it also covers “spokesman” and “speaker” — see its full sense range. With 288 verses in 27 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Jeremiah, which alone accounts for 30% of its uses. First canonically at Genesis 20:7, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5030 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 288
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 288 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #158
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 158 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 288 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 288 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 230 verses · 80%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 46 verses · 16%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Prophet 139×, Prophets 108×, All the prophets 7×
- American Standard Version: Prophet 131×, Prophets 99×, All the prophets 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Prophet 150×, Prophets 135×, Among the prophets 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Prophet 134×, Prophets 114×, Prophets of 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5030 across 314 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 40 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5030 across 313 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 51 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5030 across 310 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 6 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5030 across 292 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. genuine prophet of י׳, נביא, anciently called רֹאֶה, 1 S 9:9 (antiquarian note); change prob. occurred in times of Elijah and is first reflected in Ephr. lit. as applied to Abraham Gn 20:7; Moses Dt 34:10, M. and other early proph. Ho 6:5; 12:11(×2), 14(×2) Am 2:11, 12; of proph. in ecstatic state Nu 12:6 (E), 11:24 (JE). So in Judaic lit., of prophet like Moses Dt 18:15, 18 (D), of Aaron (as mouthpiece of M.) Ex 7:1 (P), of Sam. 1 S 3:20, an unknown Ju 6:8; in time of Sam. proph. were organized in bands: †הֶבֶל נביאים 1 S 10:5, 10; †להקת הנ׳ 1 S 19:20; and in time of Elijah were †בְּנֵי הַנְּבִיאִים = members of prophets’ guilds 1 K 20:35 2 K 2:3, 5, 7, 15; 4:1, 38(×2) נָבִיא of genuine proph. (besides phrases), in Judaic prophets, only of Jer., Je 1:5; Ezekiel, Ez 2:5 = 33:33; of ancient prophets Je 28:8, 9(×3) Zc 1:6; 8:9; especially †הנביאים הראשׁנים Zc 1:4; 7:7, 12, cf. †עבדי(ו) הנביאים my (his) servants the prophets 2 K 9:7; 17:13, 23; 21:10; 24:2 (all RD) Ezr 9:11 Dn 9:10 Je 7:25; 25:4; 26:5; 29:19; 35:15; 44:4 Am 3:7 Zc 1:6, cf. Ez 38:17 Dn 9:6; †עבדוֹ הַנּ׳ his servant the prophet 1 K 14:18 2 K 14:25; הַנָּבִיא with n.pr.: Jer, 2 Ch 36:12 Dn 9:2 + 31 times Je (but 𝔊 only 4 times, the rest prob. redactional, see GieJer. xxvii); Elijah 1 K 18:36 (om 𝔊), 2 Ch 21:12 Mal 3:23; Nathan 2 S 7:2 + 10 times S. and K.; 4 times Chr ψ 51:2 (title); Isaiah, 2 K 19:2; 20:1, 14 = Is 37:2; 38:1; 39:1; 2 K 20:11; 2 Ch 26:22; 32:20, 32; Habakkuk Hb 1:1; 3:1 (titles); Haggai, Hg 1:1, 3, 12; 2:1, 10; Zech., Zc 1:1, 7 (titles); elsewhere several others in S., K. and Chr. 15 times; נביא is used elsewhere of genuine proph. only 1 S 9:9 + 34 times S. and K.; 1 Ch 16:22 = ψ 105:15, + 13 times Chr.; ψ 74:9 complains of absence of נ׳; לַחְתֹּם חָזוֹן וְנָבִיא Dn 9:24 v. חתם. e.g. 1 Samuel 9:9
- 2. false prophets: †prophets as official class, beside priests, charact. as false prophets: Is 28:7 Je 2:26; 4:9; 6:13; 8:1, 10; 13:13; 14:18; 18:18; 23:11, 33, 34; 26:7, 8, 11, 16; 32:32 Zc 7:3, app. also 2 K 23:2 Ne 9:32 La 2:20 Je 29:1 Ez 7:26 (in these not characterized); always false (except of ancient and special prophets given above) in Am 7:14 Ho 4:5; 9:7, 8 Mi 3:5, 6, 11 Is 3:2; 9:14; 29:10 Je 2:8, 30; 5:13, 31; 14:13, 14, 15(×2); 23:9 + 16 times; 27:9, 14, 15, 16, 18; 29:8, 15; 37:19 Ez 13:2(×2), 3, 4, 9, 16; 14:4, 7, 9(×2), 10; 22:25, 28 Zp 3:4 La 2:9, 14; 4:13; especially discredited Dt 13:2, 4, 6; 18:20(×2), 22(×2) Zc 13:2, 4, 5; such a prophet Hananiah called הַנָּבִיא Je 28:1, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17 (𝔊 omits in all but v 1, where Ψευδοπροφήτης). Usage of prophets themselves gives such a bad flavour to נביא, that we are not surprised that it is absent from exilic Isaiah, the Wisd. lit., and ψψ (except for special reasons in 3 ψψ given under 1). e.g. Isaiah 28:7
- 3. heathen prophets 1 K 18:20; 19:1; 2 K 3:13(×2); נביאי האשׁרה 1 K 18:19; נביאי הבעל 1 K 18:19, 22, 25, 40 2 K 10:19; 1 K 22:6, 10, 12, 13, 22, 23 = 2 Ch 18:5, 9, 11, 12, 21, 22. e.g. 1 Kings 18:20
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. spokesman, speaker, prophet—נ׳ Gn 20:7 + 155 times; sf. נְבִיאֶ֑ךָ Ex 7:1; pl. נְבִיאִים Nu 11:29 + 82 times; נְבִאִים Je 27:18 + 16 times; sf. נְבִיאַי ψ 105:15; נְבִאָיו 1 K 22:22; נְבִיאָו֯ 2 K 17:13, etc.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נבא (nâbâʼ) (H5012) — to prophesy.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נָבִיא
- preced. wds.) prophet. B. Bath. 12ᵃ אטו חכם לאו נ׳ וכ׳ was a scholar never a prophet? Ib. חכם עדיף מנ׳ a scholar is superior to a prophet. Meg. 15ᵃ; a. v. fr.—Pl. נְבִיאִים, נְבִיאִין. Sot. IX, 12 נ׳ הראשונים the early prophets (of the first Temple). Lev. R. s. 1, beg., v. בַּיִת. Pes. 66ᵃ אם אין נ׳ הן בני נ׳ הן if they (the Israelites) are no prophets, yet they are sons of prophets (they will find what is right intuitively); Y. Sabb. XIX, 17ᵃ top. Lev. R. l. c.; Gen. R. s. 74 נְבִיאֵי ישראל Israelitish prophets; נ׳ אומות העולם heathen prophets; a. v. fr.—נָבִיא (sub. ספר) נְבִיאִים (sub. ספרי) N’biim, Prophets, the second division of the Scriptures. Tosef. Meg. IV (III), 18 אין מפטירין בנביא וכ׳ we read in the Prophets for the Haftarah no more than three verses at a time (to be interpreted). Meg. 21ᵇ ובנביא אחד וכ׳ and when reading from the Prophets (for the Haftarah), one reads and two may interpret. Ib. 27ᵃ מניחין … על גבי נביאים וכתובים you may put … parts of the Pentateuch on the Prophets or the Hagiographa, but not the Prophets &c. B. Bath. 14ᵇ סדרן של נ׳ the order of the books of Prophets; a. fr.—Fem. נְבִיאָה. Pes. 9ᵇ וכי חולדה נ׳ וכ׳ is the weasel (ḥuldah) a prophetess to know &c.? Deut. R. s. 6; a. fr.—Pl. נְבִיאוֹת. Meg. 14ᵃ; a. e.
נְבִיָּא
- ; constr. נְבִי, נְבֵי. Targ. Jud. VI, 8. Targ. Gen. XX, 7 (O. Ms. II נַבְיָא). Targ. Deut. XVIII, 20; a. v. fr.—Gitt. 57ᵇ נ׳ הוה בן וכ׳ there was a prophet among us who rebuked us &c.; Lam. R. to II, 2 נ׳ כהנא וכ׳ a prophet priest was ours &c.; a. e.—Pl. נְבִיאִין, נְבִיאַיָּא; נְבִיאָן, נְבִיָּין (נִבְיָין); נְבִיאֵי. Targ. I Kings XVIII, 4. Targ. Num. XI, 29; a. fr.—Kidd. 49ᵃ נְבִיאֵי the Books of the Prophets, v. preced.—Fem. נְבִיאֲתָא, נְבִיאָתָא. Targ. Ex. XV, 20. Targ. Jud. IV, 4; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 131 distinct written forms H5030 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 71 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5030, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 270 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 288 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 20:7
- Exodus 7:1
- Numbers 11:29
- Deuteronomy 13:1
- Judges 6:8
- 1 Samuel 3:20
- 2 Samuel 7:2
- 1 Kings 1:8
- 2 Kings 2:3
- 1 Chronicles 16:22
- 2 Chronicles 9:29
- Ezra 9:11
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
