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Elisha – Prophet and wonder-worker in the Hebrew Bible; Micaiah – Biblical prophet, disciple of Elijah; Jonah – Biblical and Quranic prophet; Amos – Hebrew prophet; Hosea – Biblical character; Amoz – Father of Isaiah; Isaiah – Israelite prophet; Micah – Prophet in Judaism; Joel – Abrahamic prophet, author of the Book of Joel
A targum is an Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that was compiled or written in the Land of Israel or in Babylonia from the Second Temple period until the early Middle Ages (late first millennium). According to the Talmud, the targum on Nevi'im was composed by Jonathan ben Uzziel.
The Twelve Minor Prophets (Hebrew: שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; Imperial Aramaic: תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve") (Ancient Greek: δωδεκαπρόφητον, "the Twelve Prophets"), or the Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament.
Islamically, Moses is described in ways which parallel the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [152] Like Muhammad, Moses is defined in the Quran as both prophet (nabi) and messenger , the latter term indicating that he was one of those prophets who brought a book and law to his people. [153] [154] Maqam El-Nabi Musa, Jericho
In the Hebrew Bible, Nabu is mentioned as Nəḇo (נְבוֹ) in Isaiah 46:1 and Jeremiah 48:1. [ 7 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] In the Hellenistic period, Nabu was sometimes identified with Apollo as a giver of prophecies.
The word is identical to elohim meaning gods and is cognate to the 'lhm found in Ugaritic, where it is used for the pantheon of Canaanite gods, the children of El and conventionally vocalized as "Elohim" although the original Ugaritic vowels are unknown. When the Hebrew Bible uses elohim not in reference to God, it is plural (for example ...
The Hebrew name for Judah, Yehuda (יהודה), literally "thanksgiving" or "praise," is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), "to thank" or "to praise." [ 3 ] His birth is recorded at Gen. 29:35; upon his birth, Leah exclaims, "This time I will praise the LORD / YHWH ," with the Hebrew word for "I will praise," odeh (אודה) sharing the ...
Nabi language, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea; Typhoon Nabi, a 2005 super typhoon; Prophets of Islam, humans who, in the Islamic faith, have been chosen as ...