נָבִיאnâbîyʼ
spokesman, speaker, prophet
Pronunciation: naw-bee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5030
Meanings
1. genuine prophet of ׳ י (1 Samuel 9:9; Genesis 20:7; Deuteronomy 34:10)
2. false prophets: prophets as official class, beside priests, character as false prophets (Isaiah 28:7; Jeremiah 2:26; Jeremiah 4:9)
3. heathen prophets (1 Kings 18:20; 1 Kings 19:1; 2 Kings 3:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 315 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 20:7 Now return the woman to her husband, and he will pray for you, for he is a prophet. Then you will live. But if you don’t return her to him, you can be sure that you and all your people will die.”
- Exodus 7:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pay close attention to this. I will make you seem like God to Pharaoh, and your brother, Aaron, will be your prophet.
- Numbers 11:29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them all!”
- Numbers 12:6 And the Lord said to them, “Now listen to what I say: “If there were prophets among you, I, the Lord, would reveal myself in visions. I would speak to them in dreams.
- Deuteronomy 13:1 “Suppose there are prophets among you or those who dream dreams about the future, and they promise you signs or miracles,
- Deuteronomy 13:3 do not listen to them. The Lord your God is testing you to see if you truly love him with all your heart and soul.
See every passage
- Genesis 20:7
- Exodus 7:1
- Numbers 11:29, 12:6
- Deuteronomy 13:1, 13:3, 13:5, 18:15, 18:18, 18:20, 18:22, 34:10
- Judges 6:8
- 1 Samuel 3:20, 9:9, 10:5, 10:10, 10:11, 10:12, 19:20, 19:24, 22:5, 28:6, 28:15
- 2 Samuel 7:2, 12:25, 24:11
- 1 Kings 1:8, 1:10, 1:22, 1:23, 1:32, 1:34, 1:38, 1:44, 1:45, 11:29, 13:11, 13:18, 13:20, 13:23, 13:25, 13:26, 13:29, 14:2, 14:18, 16:7, 16:12, 18:4, 18:13, 18:19, 18:20, 18:22, 18:25, 18:36, 18:40, 19:1, 19:10, 19:14, 19:16, 20:13, 20:22, 20:35, 20:38, 20:41, 22:6, 22:7, 22:10, 22:12, 22:13, 22:22, 22:23
- 2 Kings 2:3, 2:5, 2:7, 2:15, 3:11, 3:13, 4:1, 4:38, 5:3, 5:8, 5:13, 5:22, 6:1, 6:12, 9:1, 9:4, 9:7, 10:19, 14:25, 17:13, 17:23, 19:2, 20:1, 20:11, 20:14, 21:10, 23:2, 23:18, 24:2
- 1 Chronicles 16:22, 17:1, 29:29
- 2 Chronicles 9:29, 12:5, 12:15, 13:22, 15:8, 18:5, 18:6, 18:9, 18:11, 18:12, 18:21, 18:22, 20:20, 21:12, 24:19, 25:15, 25:16, 26:22, 28:9, 29:25, 32:20, 32:32, 35:18, 36:12, 36:16
- Ezra 9:11
- Nehemiah 6:7, 6:14, 9:26, 9:30, 9:32
- Psalms 51:0, 74:9, 105:15
- Isaiah 3:2, 9:15, 28:7, 29:10, 37:2, 38:1, 39:3
- Jeremiah 1:5, 2:8, 2:26, 2:30, 4:9, 5:13, 5:31, 6:13, 7:25, 8:1, 8:10, 13:13, 14:13, 14:14, 14:15, 14:18, 18:18, 20:2, 23:9, 23:11, 23:13, 23:14, 23:15, 23:16, 23:21, 23:25, 23:26, 23:28, 23:30, 23:31, 23:33, 23:34, 23:37, 25:2, 25:4, 26:5, 26:7, 26:8, 26:11, 26:16, 27:9, 27:14, 27:15, 27:16, 27:18, 28:1, 28:5, 28:6, 28:8, 28:9, 28:10, 28:11, 28:12, 28:15, 28:17, 29:1, 29:8, 29:15, 29:19, 29:29, 32:2, 32:32, 34:6, 35:15, 36:8, 36:26, 37:2, 37:3, 37:6, 37:13, 37:19, 38:9, 38:10, 38:14, 42:2, 42:4, 43:6, 44:4, 45:1, 46:1, 46:13, 47:1, 49:34, 50:1, 51:59
- Lamentations 2:9, 2:14, 2:20, 4:13
- Ezekiel 2:5, 7:26, 13:2, 13:3, 13:4, 13:9, 13:16, 14:4, 14:7, 14:9, 14:10, 22:25, 22:28, 33:33, 38:17
- Daniel 9:2, 9:6, 9:10, 9:24
- Hosea 4:5, 6:5, 9:7, 9:8, 12:10, 12:13
- Amos 2:11, 2:12, 3:7, 7:14
- Micah 3:5, 3:6, 3:11
- Habakkuk 1:1, 3:1
- Zephaniah 3:4
- Haggai 1:1, 1:3, 1:12, 2:1, 2:10
- Zechariah 1:1, 1:4, 1:5, 1:6, 1:7, 7:3, 7:7, 7:12, 8:9, 13:2, 13:4, 13:5
- Malachi 4:5
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).