Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5031
נְבִיאָה
nebiahneb-ee-yaw'
prophetess
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nᵉbîyʼâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5031is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5031
a prophetess or (generally) inspired woman; by implication, a poetess; by association a prophet's wife
The King James renders it: prophetess.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nebiah is rendered "prophetess". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
Exodus 15:20הַנְּבִיאָ֜ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the prophetess5
- a prophetess1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְבִיא | nebi | prophet | Uses4 |
| נְבִזְבָּה | nebizbah | reward | Uses2 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַנְּבִיאָ֜ה3
- הַנְּבִיאָה֙1
- הַנְּבִיאָ֔ה1
- נְבִיאָ֔ה1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular5HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
Exodus
one use
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
- הַנְּבִיאָ֜הhaneviahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prophetess
Judges
one use
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
- נְבִיאָ֔הneviahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a prophetess
2 Kings
one use
So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
- הַנְּבִיאָ֜הhaneviahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prophetess
2 Chronicles
one use
So Hilkiah and those the king had designated went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
- הַנְּבִיאָ֜הhaneviahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prophetess
Nehemiah
one use
O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.
- הַנְּבִיאָה֙haneviahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prophetess
Isaiah
one use
And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
- הַנְּבִיאָ֔הhaneviahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prophetess
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.