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Lexicon :: Strong's H5030 - nāḇî'

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נָבִיא
Transliteration
nāḇî'
Pronunciation
naw-bee'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 1277a

Strong’s Definitions

נָבִיא nâbîyʼ, naw-bee'; from H5012; a prophet or (generally) inspired man:—prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 316x

The KJV translates Strong's H5030 in the following manner: prophet (312x), prophecy (1x), them that prophesy (1x), prophet (with H376) (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 316x
The KJV translates Strong's H5030 in the following manner: prophet (312x), prophecy (1x), them that prophesy (1x), prophet (with H376) (1x), variant (1x).
  1. spokesman, speaker, prophet

    1. prophet

    2. false prophet

    3. heathen prophet

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָבִיא nâbîyʼ, naw-bee'; from H5012; a prophet or (generally) inspired man:—prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.
STRONGS H5030: Abbreviations
נָבִיא 306 noun masculine spokesman, speaker, prophetנ׳ Genesis 20:7 155 times; suffix נְבִיאֶ֑ךָ Exodus 7:1; plural נְבִיאִים Numbers 11:29 + 82 times; נְנִאִים Jeremiah 27:18 + 16 times; suffix נְבִיאַי Psalm 105:15; נְבִיָאו 1 Kings 22:22; נְבִיאָו֯ 2 Kings 17:13, etc.; —
1. genuine prophet of י׳, נביא, anciently called רֹאֶה, 1 Samuel 9:9 (antiquarian note); change probably occurred in times of Elijah and is first reflected in Ehpraimitic source literally as applied to Abraham Genesis 20:7; Moses Deuteronomy 34:10, M. and other early prophets. Hosea 6:5; Hosea 12:11 (twice in verse); Hosea 12:14 (twice in verse); Amos 2:11, 12; of prophets in ecstatic state Numbers 12:6 (E), Numbers 11:24 (JE). So in Judaic literature, of prophet like Moses Deuteronomy 18:15, 18 (D), of Aaron (as mouthpiece of Moses) Exodus 7:1 (P), of Samuel 1 Samuel 3:20, an unknown Judges 6:8; in time of Samuel prophets were organized in bands: חֶבֶל נביאים 1 Samuel 10:5, 10:10; להקת הנ׳ 1 Samuel 19:20; and in time of Elijah were בְּנֵי הַנְּבִיאִים = members of prophets' guilds 1 Kings 20:35; 2 Kings 2:3, 5, 7, 15; 2 Kings 4:1, 38 (twice in verse); נָבִיא of genuine prophets (besides phrases), in Judaic prophets, only Jeremiah, Jeremiah 1:5; Ezekiel, Ezekiel 2:5 = Ezekiel 33:33; of ancient prophets Jeremiah 28:8, 9 (3 times in verse); Zechariah 1:6; Zechariah 8:9; especially הנביאים הראשׁנים Zechariah 1:4; Zechariah 7:7, 12, compare הנביאים עבדי(וׅ my (his) servants the prophets 2 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 17:13, 23; 2 Kings 21:10; 2 Kings 24:2 (all RD) Ezra 9:11; Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 25:4; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 29:19; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 44:4; Amos 3:7; Zechariah 1:6, compare Ezekiel 38:17; Daniel 9:6; עבדוֺ הַנּ׳ his servant the prophet 1 Kings 14:18; 2 Kings 14:25; הַנָּבִיא with proper name: Jerome, 2 Chronicles 36:12; Daniel 9:2 + 31 times Jeremiah (but Greek Version of the LXX only + 4 times, the rest probably redactional, see GieJer. xxvii); Elijah 1 Kings 18:36 (om Greek Version of the LXX), 2 Chronicles 21:12; Malachi 3:23; Nathan 2 Samuel 7:2 + 10 times Samuel and Kings; + 4 times Chronicles; Psalm 51:2 (title); Isaiah, 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Kings 20:1, 14 = Isaiah 37:2; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1; 2 Kings 20:11; 2 Chronicles 26:22; 32:20, 32; Habakkuk Habakkuk 1:1; Habakkuk 3:1 (titles); Haggai, Haggai 1:1, 3, 12; Haggai 2:1, 10; Zechariah, Zechariah 1:1, 7 (titles); elsewhere several others in Samuel, Kings and Chronicles + 15 times; נביא is used elsewhere of Genuine prophecy only 1 Samuel 9:9 + 34 times Samuel and Kings; 1 Chronicles 16:22 = Psalm 105:15, + 13 times Chronicles; Psalm 74:9 complains of absence of נ׳; לַחְתֹּם חָזוֺן וְנָבִיא Daniel 9:24 see חתם
2. false prophets: prophets as official class, beside priests, character as false prophets: Isaiah 28:7; Jeremiah 2:26; Jeremiah 4:9; Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:1, 10; Jeremiah 13:13; Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 18:18; Jeremiah 23:11, 33, 34; Jeremiah 26:7, 8, 11, 16; Jeremiah 32:32; Zechariah 7:3, app. also 2 Kings 23:2; Nehemiah 9:32; Lamentations 2:20; Jeremiah 29:1; Ezekiel 7:26 (in these not characterized); always false (except of ancient and special prophets given above) in Amos 7:14; Hosea 4:5; Hosea 9:7, 8; Micah 3:5, 6, 11; Isaiah 3:2; Isaiah 9:14; Isaiah 29:10; Jeremiah 2:8, 30; Jeremiah 5:13, 31; Jeremiah 14:13, 14, 15 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 23:9 + 16 times Jeremiah 27:9, 14, 15, 16, 18; Jeremiah 29:8, 15; Jeremiah 37:19; Ezekiel 13:2 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 13:3, 4, 9, 16; Ezekiel 14:4, 7, 9 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 14:10; Ezekiel 22:25, 28; Zephaniah 3:4; Lamentations 2:9, 14; Lamentations 4:13; especially discredited Deuteronomy 13:2; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 18:20 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 18:22 (twice in verse); Zechariah 13:2, 4, 5; such a prophet Hananiah called הַנָּבִיא Jeremiah 28:1, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17 (Greek Version of the LXX omits in all but Jeremiah 28:1, 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 Wisdom Literature, and Psalms (except for special reasons in 3 Psalms given under 1).
3. heathen prophets 1 Kings 18:20; 1 Kings 19:1; 2 Kings 3:13 (twice in verse); נביאי האשׁדה 1 Kings 18:19; נביאי הבעל 1 Kings 18:19, 22, 25, 40; 2 Kings 10:19; 1 Kings 22:6, 10, 12, 13, 22, 23 2 Chronicles 18:5; 18:9; 18:11; 18:12; 18:21; 18:22.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:7; 20:7

Exodus

7:1; 7:1

Numbers

11:24; 11:29; 12:6

Deuteronomy

13:2; 13:4; 13:6; 18:15; 18:18; 18:20; 18:22; 34:10

Judges

6:8

1 Samuel

3:20; 9:9; 9:9; 10:5; 10:10; 19:20

2 Samuel

7:2

1 Kings

14:18; 18:19; 18:19; 18:20; 18:22; 18:25; 18:36; 18:40; 19:1; 20:35; 22:6; 22:10; 22:12; 22:13; 22:22; 22:22; 22:23

2 Kings

2:3; 2:5; 2:7; 2:15; 3:13; 4:1; 4:38; 9:7; 10:19; 14:25; 17:13; 17:13; 17:23; 19:2; 20:1; 20:11; 20:14; 21:10; 23:2; 24:2

1 Chronicles

16:22

2 Chronicles

18:5; 18:9; 18:11; 18:12; 18:21; 18:22; 21:12; 26:22; 32:20; 32:32; 36:12

Ezra

9:11

Nehemiah

9:32

Psalms

51:2; 74:9; 105:15; 105:15

Isaiah

3:2; 9:14; 28:7; 29:10; 37:2; 38:1; 39:1

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; 23:9; 23:11; 23:33; 23:34; 25:4; 26:5; 26:7; 26:8; 26:11; 26:16; 27:9; 27:14; 27:15; 27:16; 27:18; 27:18; 28:1; 28:1; 28:5; 28:8; 28:9; 28:10; 28:12; 28:15; 28:17; 29:1; 29:8; 29:15; 29:19; 32:32; 35:15; 37:19; 44:4

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; 9:24

Hosea

4:5; 6:5; 9:7; 9:8; 12:11; 12:14

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; 1:6; 1:6; 1:7; 7:3; 7:7; 7:12; 8:9; 13:2; 13:4; 13:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5030 matches the Hebrew נָבִיא (nāḇî'),
which occurs 317 times in 288 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 6 (1Ki 18:19–2Ki 23:18)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - “So now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets H5030 of Baal and 400 prophets H5030 of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:20 -

So Ahab sent a message among all the sons of Israel and gathered the prophets H5030 together at Mount Carmel.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:22 - Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone am left a prophet H5030 of Yahweh, but Baal’s prophets H5030 are 450 men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:25 -

So Elijah said to the prophets H5030 of Baal, “Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and call on the name of your god, but place no fire under it.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:36 - Now it happened at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet H5030 came near and said, “O Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that You are God in Israel and that I am Your slave and I have done all these things at Your word.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets H5030 of Baal; do not let one of them escape.” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slaughtered them there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 -

Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and [fn]how he had killed all the prophets H5030 with the sword.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:10 - And he said, “I have been very zealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, pulled down Your altars and killed Your prophets H5030 with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:14 - Then he said, “I have been very zealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, pulled down Your altars and killed Your prophets H5030 with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:16 - and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet H5030 in your place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13 -

Now behold, a prophet H5030 approached Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver them into your hand today, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:22 -

Then the prophet H5030 came near to the king of Israel and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself and know and see what you have to do; for at the turn of the year the king of Aram will come up against you.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:35 -

Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets H5030 said to [fn]another by the word of Yahweh, “Please strike me.” But the man refused to strike him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:38 - So the prophet H5030 walked away and stood by, for the king by the way, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:41 - Then he hastily took the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was of the prophets H5030.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:6 - Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets H5030 together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:7 - But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not yet a prophet H5030 of Yahweh here that we may inquire of him?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:10 - Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, clothed in their royal garments, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets H5030 were prophesying before them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:12 - All the prophets H5030 were also prophesying thus, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and succeed, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:13 -

Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, “Behold now, the words of the prophets H5030, as if from one mouth, are good towards the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:22 - “And Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets H5030.’ Then He said, ‘You shall entice him and also prevail. Go out and do so.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:23 - “So now, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets H5030; but Yahweh has spoken calamity against you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3 - Then the sons of the prophets H5030 who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from over [fn]you today?” And he said, “Yes, I know; be silent.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:5 - Then the sons of the prophets H5030 who were at Jericho approached Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from over [fn]you today?” And he [fn]answered, “Yes, I know; be silent.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:7 -

Now fifty men of the sons of the prophets H5030 went and stood opposite them at a distance, but the two of them stood by the Jordan.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:15 -

Then the sons of the prophets H5030 who were at Jericho opposite him saw him and said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:11 - But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not a prophet H5030 of Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?” And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 -

Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What do I have to do with you? Go to the prophets H5030 of your father and to the prophets H5030 of your mother.” And the king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to give them into the hand of Moab.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:1 -

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets H5030 cried out to [fn]Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared Yahweh; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 -

Now Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. [fn]As the sons of the prophets H5030 were sitting before him, he said to his young man, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets H5030.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - And she said to her mistress, “I wish that my master were before the prophet H5030 who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:8 -

Now it happened when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Now let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet H5030 in Israel.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:13 - Then his servants approached and spoke to him and said, “My father, had the prophet H5030 spoken with you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:22 - And he said, “All is at peace. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets H5030 have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:1 -

And the sons of the prophets H5030 said to Elisha, “Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limited for us.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - And one of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet H5030 who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1 -

Now Elisha the prophet H5030 called one of the sons of the prophets H5030 and said to him, “Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth-gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:4 -

So the young man—the young man of the prophet H5030—went to Ramoth-gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - ‘And you shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My slaves the prophets H5030, and the blood of all the slaves of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - “So now, summon to me all the prophets H5030 of Baal, all his slaves and all his priests; let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal; whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it in [fn]cunning, so that he might cause the slaves of Baal to perish.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25 - He restored the border of Israel from [fn]Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which He spoke [fn]through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet H5030, who was of Gath-hepher.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:13 - Yet Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of all His prophets H5030 and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My slaves the prophets H5030.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:23 - until Yahweh caused Israel to depart from His presence, as He spoke through all His slaves the prophets H5030. So Israel went into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:2 - Then he sent Eliakim who was over the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet H5030 the son of Amoz.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:1 -

In those days Hezekiah became ill to the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet H5030 the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11 - Isaiah the prophet H5030 cried to Yahweh, and He turned the shadow on the [fn]stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the [fn]stairway of Ahaz.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - Then Isaiah the prophet H5030 came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:10 -

Then Yahweh spoke by the hand of His slaves the prophets H5030, saying,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:2 - And the king went up to the house of Yahweh and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets H5030 and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - And he said, “Let him alone; let no one move his bones.” So they [fn]left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet H5030 who came from Samaria.

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