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# נְבִיאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5031

**prophetess** — used 6 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

prophetess [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5031/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְבִיאָה: n.f. prophetess [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5031/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. prophetess;— of the ancient type endowed with gift of song, Miriam Ex 15:20; Deborah Ju 4:4. of the later type consulted for a word of י׳, Huldah 2 K 22:14 = 2 Ch 34:22. false prophetess, Noadiah Ne 6:14. wife of Isaiah Is 8:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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: prophetess (5); a prophetess (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 4:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.4/#tree)

וּדְבוֹרָה֙ אִשָּׁ֣ה נְבִיאָ֔ה אֵ֖שֶׁת לַפִּיד֑וֹת הִ֛יא שֹׁפְטָ֥ה אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בָּעֵ֥ת הַהִֽיא׃

*Word for word:* and Deborah \[was\].a.woman a.prophetess the.wife of.Lappidoth she \[was\].judging (et) Israel at the time (the) that

*JPS 1917:* Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

[Exodus 15:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.20/#tree)

וַתִּקַּח֩ מִרְיָ֨ם הַנְּבִיאָ֜ה אֲח֧וֹת אַהֲרֹ֛ן אֶת־הַתֹּ֖ף בְּיָדָ֑הּ וַתֵּצֶ֤אןָ כָֽל־הַנָּשִׁים֙ אַחֲרֶ֔יהָ בְּתֻפִּ֖ים וּבִמְחֹלֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and she.took Miriam the prophetess the.sister of.Aaron (et) the tambourine in hand her and they.went.out all the women behind her with tambourines and with dancing(s)

*JPS 1917:* And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5031.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5031/): 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).