H5030

• {"n":"Genesis 20:7","s":"He is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee. The word's first use in the Bible names an intercessor, not a predictor.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=genesis-20-7","r":"Genesis 20:7","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads prophet, correctly, but the word's modern popular sense, foreteller of events, is not what this first, founding occurrence of the word is actually describing Abraham doing."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"Modern English **prophet** usually means someone who predicts the future. The very first time the Bible uses the word for a person, at this verse, the job described is prayer on someone else's behalf, not prediction, a baseline sense English usage has since narrowed away from."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Navi, prophet, appears here for the first time applied to a human being anywhere in the Hebrew Bible, and the role attached to it is intercessory prayer that will restore Abimelech's household, not prediction of a future event. The root behind navi is connected to proclaiming or speaking forth, someone who carries and delivers a message from God, of which intercession is one function among several the word will carry through the rest of the Hebrew Bible."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English prophet arrives already loaded with connotations of foretelling and prediction from centuries of usage; a reader meets that connotation before ever noticing that the Bible's own first, defining use of the word describes someone praying for others, not predicting anything at all."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a key theological term first appears in the Bible, read that occurrence as a baseline for the word's range before importing the sense the word carries by its last or most familiar biblical occurrence, let alone its modern popular meaning."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Prophet as the rendering of navi is settled; translators are not divided here. What is easy to miss is that its first appearance defines the office more by intercession than by prediction, a nuance the English word prophet, loaded with its own later history, does not supply on its own."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05e0\u05b8\u05d1\u05b4\u05d9\u05d0 navi \u00b7 H5030"}],"src":["navi's root connected to proclaiming or speaking forth: standard Hebrew lexicons","This as the first application of navi to a person anywhere in the Hebrew Bible: standard concordance data"]}
• {"n":"navi","s":"Prophet. One who speaks for someone else, which is a job rather than a gift of prediction.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=navi","r":"Exodus 7:1","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads prophet."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Spokesman.** That is the job. Whether the message concerns the future is incidental to what the role is."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"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."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English prophecy has narrowed almost entirely to foretelling, so forthtelling has to be explained."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When the Bible defines a term inside the narrative, that definition outranks any lexicon. Exodus 7:1 is the definition of this one."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Prophet is universal."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05e0\u05b8\u05d1\u05b4\u05d9\u05d0 navi \u00b7 H5030"}],"src":["Exodus 7:1 defines the office","Aaron as Moses' mouth: Exodus 4:16","Deuteronomy 18:18, I will put my words in his mouth"]}