Prophetess
נְבִיאָהStrong’s H5031neviah (ne-vi-ah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neviah is the Hebrew word usually translated “prophetess”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.”
Meaning
- Hetessancient type endowed with gift of song (Miriam) · later type consulted for a word (Huldah) · false prophetess (Noadiah) · wife of Isaiah the prophet
How it's translated
- the prophetess 5
- a prophetess 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Judges 1
- 2 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Isaiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 4:4And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
- 2 Kings 22:14So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
- 2 Chronicles 34:22And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
- Nehemiah 6:14My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
- Isaiah 8:3And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
Hebrew dictionary
נְבִיאָה neviah · prophetess
1) prophetess 1a) ancient type endowed with gift of song (Miriam) 1b) later type consulted for a word (Huldah) 1c) false prophetess (Noadiah) 1d) wife of Isaiah the prophet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prophetess” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROPH'ETESS, noun
A female prophet; a woman who foretells future events, as Miriam, Huldah, Anna, etc.
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.