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# נְבוּאָה

Biblical Aramaic

**prophesying** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

prophesying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc_5d0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְבוּאָה: n.f. prophesying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc_5d0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. prophesying;—cstr. נְבוּאַת Ezr 6:14.

### Jastrow 1903

נְבוּאָה ²

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. O. Gen. XV, 1. Targ. Num. XI, 28. Ib. 29 (Y. נְבוּתֵיה = נבואתיה); a. fr.—B. Bath. 14ᵇ כתיב נְבוּאֲתֵיה גבי וכ׳ his (Hosea’s) prophecy is joined to Haggai &c. (belonging to the twelve Minor Prophets); a. e.—Pl. נְבוּאָן. Targ. Ez. XIII, 14, sq.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the prophesying (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.14/#tree)

וְשָׂבֵ֤י יְהוּדָיֵא֙ בָּנַ֣יִן וּמַצְלְחִ֔ין בִּנְבוּאַת֙ חַגַּ֣י נְבִיָּ֔א וּזְכַרְיָ֖ה בַּר־עִדּ֑וֹא וּבְנ֣וֹ וְשַׁכְלִ֗לוּ מִן־טַ֙עַם֙ אֱלָ֣הּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּמִטְּעֵם֙ כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ וְדָרְיָ֔וֶשׁ וְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּא מֶ֥לֶךְ פָּרָֽס׃

*Word for word:* and the.elders of the.Jews \[were\].building and prospering by the.prophesying of.Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the.son of.Iddo and they.built and they.finished according.to the.decree of.the.God of.Israel and according to.the.decree of.Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes the.king of.Persia

*JPS 1917:* And the elders of the Jews builded and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc_5d0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc_5d0_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).