נָבִיא navi

Hebrew word for “prophet” · Strong’s H5030 · used 315 times in 287 verses

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Meaning

1) spokesman, speaker, prophet; 1a) prophet; 1b) false prophet; 1c) heathen prophet; Aramaic equivalent: ne.vi (נְבִיא "prophet" H5029)

How it is translated

Glosses given for navi in context, with how often each is used:

• prophet 167
• prophets 142
• among the prophets 5
• one of the prophets 1

Where it is used

Also in 15 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Jeremiah 23 (15), Jeremiah 28 (10), 1 Kings 1 (9), 1 Kings 18 (8), 1 Kings 13 (7), 1 Kings 22 (7), 2 Chronicles 18 (7), 1 Kings 20 (5), Jeremiah 26 (5), Jeremiah 27 (5)

Forms

• הנביא 120
• הנביאים 52
• נביא 26
• הנבאים 19
• נביאי 12
• נביאיך 8
• נבאים 6
• ונביא 6
• נביאיכם 5
• והנבאים 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with navi more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• דָּבָר davar “word” 75
• יִרְמְיָהוּ yirmeyah “Jeremiah” 36
• נָבָא nava “to prophesy” 31
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 45
• דָבַר davar “to speak” 45
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 32
• נָתָן natan “Nathan” 16
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 33
• עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 27
• כֹּה koh “thus” 24
• שֶׁקֶר sheqer “deception” 16
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 25

Key verses

The verses using navi that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Kings 18:36 — And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of…
• 2 Chronicles 36:16 — But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was…
• Nehemiah 9:26 — Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn…
• Psalms 51:1 — [To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to…
• Jeremiah 2:30 — In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Jeremiah 5:31 — The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
• Jeremiah 18:18 — Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from…
• Daniel 9:24 — Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for…
• Micah 3:11 — The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and…
• Zechariah 1:4 — Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil…
• Zechariah 1:6 — But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD…
• Zechariah 13:2 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.