Aramaic word · H5013

נבא

vehitnabi

to prophesy

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

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(CLBL) (Ithpael) to prophesy

Aramaic of na.va (נָבָא "to prophesy" H5012)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 5:1 וְהִתְנַבִּ֞י and he prophesied

    Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.