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2 Chronicles 20:37
“Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5012 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to prophesy, i.e. speak (or sing) by inspiration (in prediction or simple discourse)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- prophesy(-ing), make self a prophet.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּתְנַבֵּ֞א — verb Hithpael, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 115 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 11:25Numbers 11:26Numbers 11:271 Samuel 10:51 Samuel 10:6
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָבָא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.