38:1
;
39:1
;
2 K 20:11
;
2 Ch 26:22
;
32:20
,
32
; Habakkuk
Hb 1:1
;
3:1
(titles); Haggai,
Hg 1:1
,
3
,
12
;
2:1
,
10
; Zech.,
Zc 1:1
,
7
(titles); elsewhere several others in
S., K. and Chr. 15 times;
נביא
is used elsewhere of genuine proph. only
1 S 9:9
+
34 times S. and K.;
1 Ch 16:22
=
ψ 105:15
,
+
13 times Chr.;
ψ 74:9
complains of absence of
נ׳
;
לַחְתֹּם חָזֹון וְנָבִיא
Dn 9:24
v.
חתם
.
2.
false prophets:
•
prophets as official class, beside priests, charact. as false prophets:
Is 28:7 Je 2:26
;
4:9
;
6:13
;
8:1
,
10
;
13:13
;
14:18
;
18:18
;
23:11
,
33
,
34
;
26:7
,
8
,
11
,
16
;
32:32 Zc 7:3
, app. also
2 K 23:2 Ne 9:32 La 2:20 Je 29:1 Ez 7:26
(in these not characterized); always false (except of ancient and special prophets given above) in
Am 7:14 Ho 4:
5;
9:7
,
8 Mi 3:
5,
6
,
11 Is 3:
2;
9:14
;
29:10 Je 2:
8,
30
;
5:13
,
31
;
14:13
,
14
,
15
(×2);
23:9
+
16 times;
27:9
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
18
;
29:8
,
15
;
37:19 Ez 13:2
(×2),
3
,
4
,
9
,
16
;
14:4
,
7
,
9
(×2),
10
;
22:25
,
28 Zp 3:4 La 2:
9,
14
;
4:13
; especially discredited
Dt 13:2
,
4
,
6
;
18:20
(×2),
22
(×2) Zc 13:
2,
4
,
5
; such a prophet Hananiah called
הַנָּבִיא
Je 28:
1,
5
,
10
,
12
,
15
,
17
(
Ö
omits in all but
v
1, where
Ψευδοπροφήτης
). Usage of prophets themselves gives such a bad flavour to
נביא
, that we are not surprised that it is absent from exilic Isaiah, the
Wisd. lit.
, and
ψψ
(except for special reasons in 3
ψψ
given under
1
).
•
3.
heathen prophets
1 K 18:20
;
19:1
;
2 K 3:13
(×2);
האשׁרה נביאי
1 K 18:1
9;
נביאי הבעל
1 K 18:1
9,
22
,
25
,
40 2 K 10:1
9;
1 K 22:6
,
10
,
12
,
13
,
22
,
23
=
2 Ch 18:
5,
9
,
11
,
12
,
21
,
22
.
• [ נָבָא S 5012 TWOT 1277 GK 5547 ] vb. denom. prophesy (in oldest forms, of religious ecstasy with or without song and music; later, essentially religious instruction, with occasional predictions);— Niph. Pf. 3 ms. נִבָּא Je 20:1 + 7 times; 2 ms. נִבֵּאתָ Je 20:6 + 2 times; נִבֵּיתָ Je 26: 9; 1 s. נִבֵּאתִי Ez 37:7 ; 3 pl. נִבְּאוּ Je 2:8 + 3 times; נִבָּ˜נוּ Je 23:2 1; Impf. 3 ms. יִנָּבֵא Am 3:8 + 9 times Impf. ; Imv. הִנָּבֵא Am 7:15 + 27 times; Inf. הִנָּבֵא Am 7:13 ; sf. הִנָֽבְאֹו Zc 13: 3; הִנָּֽבְאֹתֹו Zc 13: 4, + 4 times Inf. ; Pt. נִבָּא Je 26:18 + ( Ges § 93 oo);— 1. prophesy under influence of divine spirit: a. in the ecstatic state, with song 1 S 10:11 ; 19:20 and music 1 Ch 25:1 , 2 , 3 . b. the word of
י׳ : abs. Am 2:1 2; 3:8 (emend. יחרד We Now needless), 7:12 , 13 Jo 3:1 Je 19:1 4; 26:18 ; 28:9 ; 32:3 Ez 11:1 3; 12:27 ; 21:19 ; 37:7 ; 38:17 but especially in phr.
הִנָּבֵא וְאָמַדְתָּ
Ez 12:2
7;
21:14
,
33
;
30:2
;
34:2
;
36:3
;
37:7
,
12
;
38:14
,
17
;
c.
acc.
Je 20:
1;
25:30
;
28:6
;
sq.
עַל
against
Am 7:16 Je 25:1
3;
26:20 Ez 4:
7;
11:4
;
13:17
;
25:2
;
28:21
;
29:2
;
34:2
;
35:2
;
36:6
;
38:2
;
39:1
;
unto
Ez 37:
4;
אֶל
unto
Am 7:15 Je 26:1
1,
12
;
28:8 Ez 36:
1;
37:9
;
against
6:
2;
13:2
;
21:2
,
7
;
בְשֵׁם י׳
Je 11:2
1;
14:15
;
23:25
;
26:9
.
2.
of false prophets:
abs.
Je 23:21 Ez
Wisd. lit. Wisdom Literature.