1. Prophet, divine spokesperson — A person who speaks on behalf of a deity, delivering divinely inspired messages, warnings, or predictions; the standard term for both individual prophets (Moses, Elijah, Isaiah) and the prophetic class as an institution, encompassing all grammatical forms including singular, plural, construct, and possessed forms with no translation-signature evidence for semantic splitting across Arabic (nabiyy/anbiya), Korean (seonjiJa/ye-eonJa), Swahili (nabii/manabii), or Hindi (nabi/bhavishyavakta). 317×
AR["الـ-نَبِيُّ","الـ-نَّبِيِّ","النَّبِيَّ","النَّبِيُّ","النَّبِيِّ"]·ben["-নবী","-নবীকে","ভবিষ্যদ্বক্তার","ভাববাদী","ভাববাদীর","সেই-ভবিষ্যদ্বক্তা"]·DE["der-Prophet"]·EN["the-prophet"]·FR["le-prophète"]·heb["ה-נביא"]·HI["नबी","नबी-के","नबी-ने","नबी-से","नबेए"]·ID["-nabi","nabi","sang-nabi"]·IT["il-profeta"]·jav["nabi","sang-nabi"]·KO["그-선지자","그-선지자가","그-선지자와","그-선지자의","선지자가","선지자를"]·PT["o-profeta"]·RU["-пророк","-пророка","-пророку","пророк","пророка","пророку"]·ES["el-profeta"]·SW["kuwa-mfalme","mwana-wa","na-Benaya","nabii"]·TR["-peygamber","peygamber","peygambere","peygamberin"]·urd["-نبی-کی","ال-نبی","نبی","نبی-نے","نبی-کو","نبی-کے","وہ-نبی","وہ-نبی-نے"]
Deut 13:3, Deut 18:20, Deut 18:20, Deut 18:22, Deut 18:22, 1 Sam 22:5, 2 Sam 7:2, 2 Sam 12:25, 2 Sam 24:11, 1 Kgs 1:8, 1 Kgs 1:10, 1 Kgs 1:22 (+38 more)
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Related Senses
H3548 1. priest, cultic officiant (750×)G5547 1. Christ, Messiah, Anointed One (540×)H5930a 1. burnt offering (sacrifice) (286×)H3881 1. Levites (priestly class) (283×)G4396 1. prophet, spokesperson of God (146×)H6944 1. sanctuary, holy place (129×)G0749 1. high priest, chief priest (123×)H6944 2. holiness, sacredness (abstract quality) (123×)H2076 1. Qal: offer sacrifice (cultic) (116×)G5330 1. Pharisee (99×)G0040 1. the Holy One, Holy Spirit (98×)H2931 1. ritually or morally unclean (88×)G4336 1. pray to God (86×)H6944 3. holy things, sacred offerings (plural) (86×)H3722a 1. make ritual atonement (Piel) (85×)H6912 1. bury (Qal active) (82×)H6419 1. pray (Hitpael) (80×)H6944 4. holiness (with possessive pronoun) (77×)H6942 1. sanctify, consecrate (Piel factitive) (76×)H2930a 1. Qal: be/become unclean (75×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
נָבִיא306 n.m. spokesman, speaker, prophet—נ׳ Gn 20:7 + 155 times; sf. נְבִיאֶ֑ךָ Ex 7:1; pl. נְבִיאִים Nu 11:29 + 82 times; נְבִאִים Je 27:18 + 16 times; sf. נְבִיאַי ψ 105:15; נְבִאָיו 1 K 22:22; נְבִיאָו֯ 2 K 17:13, etc.;— 1. genuine prophet of י׳, נביא, anciently called רֹאֶה, 1 S 9:9 (antiquarian note); change prob. occurred in times of Elijah and is first reflected in Ephr. lit. as applied…