To prophesy
נְבָאStrong’s H5013neva (ne-va)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Neva is the Aramaic word usually translated “prophesied”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.”
Meaning
- V
How it's translated
- and he prophesied 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
נְבָא neva · to prophesy
v (CLBL) (Ithpael) to prophesy Aramaic of na.va (נָבָא "to prophesy" H5012)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prophesy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROPH'ESY, verb transitive
To foretell future events; to predict.
- “me, but evil” 1 Kings 22:8
- To foreshow. [Little used.]
All definitions and other forms of “prophesy”
PROPH'ESY, verb intransitive
To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.
- In Scripture, to preach; to instruct in religious doctrines; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to exhort. 1 Corinthians 13:9Ezekiel 37:4
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.