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# נְבוּאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5016

**prophecy** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

prophecy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5016/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְבוּאָה: n.f. prophecy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5016/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. prophecy (late: earlier syn. חָזוֹן);— specific and genuine 2 Ch 15:8. false Ne 6:12. prophetic writing עַל־נְבוּאַת אֲחִיָּה 2 Ch 9:29.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: prophecy (2); the prophecy (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 6:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.12/#tree)

וָאַכִּ֕ירָה וְהִנֵּ֥ה לֹֽא־אֱלֹהִ֖ים שְׁלָח֑וֹ כִּ֤י הַנְּבוּאָה֙ דִּבֶּ֣ר עָלַ֔י וְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה וְסַנְבַלַּ֖ט שְׂכָרֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and I recognized and there! not God he had.sent.him (dm) the prophecy he.had.spoken on me and Tobiah and Sanballat he had.hired.him

*JPS 1917:* And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me, whereas Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

[2 Chronicles 9:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.29/#tree)

וּשְׁאָר֙ דִּבְרֵ֣י שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים וְהָאֲחֲרוֹנִ֑ים הֲלֹא־הֵ֣ם כְּתוּבִ֗ים עַל־דִּבְרֵי֙ נָתָ֣ן הַנָּבִ֔יא וְעַל־נְבוּאַ֞ת אֲחִיָּ֣ה הַשִּֽׁילוֹנִ֗י וּבַחֲזוֹת֙ יֶעְדּ֣וֹ הַחֹזֶ֔ה עַל־יָרָבְעָ֖ם בֶּן־נְבָֽט׃

*Word for word:* and the.rest of.the.matters of.Solomon (the) former and (the) latter ? not \[are\].they written on the.words of.Nathan the prophet and on the.prophecy of.Ahijah the Shilonite and in the.visions of.Iddo the seer on Jeroboam the.son of.Nebat

*JPS 1917:* Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Jedo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5016.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5016/): 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).