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Hebrew and Greek Without Learning Either
A walk through Genesis, the Psalms, and John, plus the key Hebrew and Greek words worth knowing. Each card is a place the English Bibles part company, and what in the Hebrew or Greek made them.
navi
Prophet. One who speaks for someone else, which is a job rather than a gift of prediction.
Exodus 7:1, in every translation this tool compares.
Spokesman. That is the job. Whether the message concerns the future is incidental to what the role is.
Because prophecy in English means prediction, and the Hebrew office is about being someone's mouth, which Exodus 7:1 states outright.
Every version reads prophet.
נָבִיא navi · H5030
Navi is one who speaks for another. Exodus 7:1 makes Aaron the navi of Moses, which defines the term inside the text: Moses is as God and Aaron is his mouth. Prediction is a possible content, not the definition.
English prophecy has narrowed almost entirely to foretelling, so forthtelling has to be explained.
When the Bible defines a term inside the narrative, that definition outranks any lexicon. Exodus 7:1 is the definition of this one.
Prophet is universal.
- Exodus 7:1 defines the office
- Aaron as Moses' mouth: Exodus 4:16
- Deuteronomy 18:18, I will put my words in his mouth
