- נביא
- נָבִיאm. (b. h.; preced. wds.) prophet. B. Bath.12a אטו חכם לאו נ׳וכ׳ was a scholar never a prophet? Ib. חכם עדיף מנ׳ a scholar is superior to a prophet. Meg.15a; a. v. fr.Pl. נְבִיאִים, נְבִיאִין. Sot.IX, 12 נ׳ הראשונים the early prophets (of the first Temple). Lev. R. s. 1, beg., v. בַּיִת. Pes.66a אם אין נ׳ הן בני נ׳ הן if they (the Israelites) are no prophets, yet they are sons of prophets (they will find what is right intuitively); Y.Sabb.XIX, 17a top. Lev. R. l. c.; Gen. R. s. 74 נְבִיאֵי ישראל Israelitish prophets; נ׳ אומות העולם heathen prophets; a. v. fr.נָבִיא (sub. ספר) נְבִיאִים (sub. ספרי) Nbiim, Prophets, the second division of the Scriptures. Tosef.Meg.IV (III), 18 אין מפטירין בנביאוכ׳ we read in the Prophets for the Haftarah no more than three verses at a time (to be interpreted). Meg.21b ובנביא אחדוכ׳ and when reading from the Prophets (for the Haftarah), one reads and two may interpret. Ib. 27a מניחין … על גבי נביאים וכתובים you may put … parts of the Pentateuch on the Prophets or the Hagiographa, but not the Prophets B. Bath.14b סדרן של נ׳ the order of the books of Prophets; a. fr.Fem. נְבִיאָה. Pes.9b וכי חולדה נ׳וכ׳ is the weasel (ḥuldah) a prophetess to know ? Deut. R. s. 6; a. fr.Pl. נְבִיאוֹת. Meg.14a; a. e.
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