Nava נָבָא

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Nava
נָבָא
Transliterationnava
Strong's numberH5012
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto prophesy
Occurrences115 in 102 verses
Most frequent inJeremiah (36)

Nava (Hebrew נָבָא, Strong's H5012) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to prophesy”. It occurs 115 times in 102 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to prophesy
1a) (Niphal)
1a1) to prophesy
1a1a) under influence of divine spirit
1a1b) of false prophets
1b)(Hithpael)
1b1) to prophesy
1b1a) under influence of divine spirit
1b1b) of false prophets
Aramaic equivalent: ne.va (נבא "to prophesy" H5013)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVprophesy (68), prophesied (40), prophesieth (3), prophesying (2), prophet (2)
BSBprophesy (39), prophesying (10), prophesied (7), prophesies (7), who prophesy (7), are prophesying (6), they prophesied (3), he prophesied (3), began to prophesy (3), who prophesied (3), i prophesied (3), were prophesying (2), and 19 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Every verse with Nava, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Numbers

1 Samuel

1 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Joel

Amos

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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