Bible word study

Nabi (Strong’s H5030): Meaning in the Bible

Nabi (נָבִיא) is the Hebrew word numbered H5030 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a prophet or (generally) inspired man. In the King James Bible it is translated prophecy, that prophesy, prophet..

• Original wordנָבִיא
• Transliterationnâbîyʼ
• Pronunciationnaw-bee'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH5030
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H5012;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Nabi appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Nabi (H5030) stands behind 313 English renderings in 285 verses across 26 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Jeremiah (95), 1 Kings (50), 2 Kings (33).

How the King James Bible renders Nabi, by count

• prophet162 of 313 (52 percent)
• prophets148 of 313 (47 percent)
• prophecy1 of 313 (0 percent)
• prophesy1 of 313 (0 percent)
• the prophet1 of 313 (0 percent)

Three places to read Nabi

• Genesis 20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
• 2 Kings 20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
• Jeremiah 28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD’s house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Nabi in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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