נָבָא

na.va
to prophesy
Strong’s H5012Verb115 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

prophesy33
are prophesying15
they prophesied11
he prophesied7
prophesied7
prophesying6
you will prophesy4
he prophesies4

In the text

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[נָבָא] vb. denom. prophesy (in oldest forms, of religious ecstasy with or without song and music; later, essentially religious instruction, with occasional predictions)
Niph.
1. prophesy under influence of divine spirit
2. of false prophets
3. cf. heathen prophets
Hithp.
1. prophesy under influence of divine spirit
2. of heathen prophets of Baal in ecstatic state
3. of false prophets

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.