נְבִיאָה
nᵉbîyʼâh · H5031 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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prophetess
Female person speaking on behalf of a deity
ExamplesExodus 15:20 Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.
Judges 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
2 Kings 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (and she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- חֻלְדָּהHuldah 2
- דְּבּוֹרָהbee 1
- מִרְיָםMiriam 1
- נוֹעַדְיָהNoadiah 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵלto, toward 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- προφῆτις prophētis · G4398 · prophetess, inspired preacher
- Greek προφῆτις is the direct lexical equivalent of Hebrew נְבִיאָה, both denoting a female prophet or prophetess with the feminine form marking the gender distinction from the masculine prophet terms in each language.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Prophets001001003010
- נְבִיאָה denotes a prophetess, the feminine counterpart to נָבִיא (nâbîyʼ, H5030), applied to figures such as Miriam (Exodus 15:20), Deborah (Judges 4:4), and Huldah (2 Kings 22:14), functioning as the term for a woman recognized in this prophetic office.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5031. nebiah נְבִיאָה noun masculine prophetess; — 1. a. of the ancient type endowed…
נְבִיאָה noun masculine prophetess; —
1. a. of the ancient type endowed with gift of song, Miriam Exo 15:20; Deborah Jdg 4:4.
b. of the later type consulted for a word of ׳י, Huldah 2Ki 22:14 2Ch 34:22.
2 false prophetess, Noadiah Neh 6:14.
3 wife of Isaiah Isa 8:3.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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