Sentences with phrase «term nabi»

Even if we were certain of the original meaning of the root underlying the Hebrew noun we could hardly take this as conclusive evidence of the basic understanding of the Old Testament prophet in the middle centuries of the first millenium B.C. Rather, we will have to understand the sense of the term nabi» from the person of the prophet himself as he appears and functions in the community of ancient Israel.

It is also indebted to a kind of prophetic role and person at home in Canaan long before Israel and from early times identified by the term nabi», prophet.

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What does that term, nabi, mean?

The Hebrew term for prophet, the only term appropriately so translated, is nabi».

The word nabi» came to be applied to Israelite functionaries in the tenth century, and in the later classical sense of the term, sometime during or after Amos» day.