נְבוּאָהnᵉbûwʼâh
prophecy
Pronunciation: neb-oo-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5016
Meanings
1.
a. specific and genuine (2 Chronicles 15:8)
b. false (Nehemiah 6:12)
2. prophetic writing (2 Chronicles 9:29)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 9:29 The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded in The Record of Nathan the Prophet, and The Prophecy of Ahijah from Shiloh, and also in The Visions of Iddo the Seer, concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat.
- 2 Chronicles 15:8 When Asa heard this message from Azariah the prophet, he took courage and removed all the detestable idols from the land of Judah and Benjamin and in the towns he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. And he repaired the altar of the Lord, which stood in front of the entry room of the Lord’s Temple.
- Nehemiah 6:12 I realized that God had not spoken to him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).