Prophecy
נְבוּאָהStrong’s H5016nevuah (ne-vu-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nevuah is the Hebrew word usually translated “prophecy of” and “prophecy”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?”
Meaning
- Hecyhetic writing
How it's translated
- prophecy of 1
- and the prophecy of 1
- the prophecy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Nehemiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 15:8And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
- Nehemiah 6:12And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Hebrew dictionary
נְבוּאָה nevuah · prophecy
1) prophecy 1a) prophecy 1a1) specific and genuine 1a2) false 1b) prophetic writing Aramaic equivalent: ne.vu.ah (נְבוּאָה "prophesying" H5017)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prophecy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROPH'ECY, noun
[Gr. to foretell, before and to tell. This ought to be written prophesy.]
- A foretelling; prediction; a declaration of something to come. 2 Peter 1:19
- In Scripture, a book of prophecies; a history; as the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chronicles 9:29
- Preaching; public interpretation of Scripture; exhortation or instruction. Proverbs 31:1
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.