navi

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Pronunciations

navi (nah-VEE) listen

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Definitions

  • n. A prophet.

  • n. A lesson on Prophets.

Example Sentences

  • "Rambam lays out the traits that a navi must have."

  • "What time does Navi start?"

  • "Don't ask me where it will all end. I'm no navi." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • TH נביא naví > Y נבֿיא novi

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      novi, nevi, neviim, nevi'im

Notes

  • plural: 'nevi'im'

    See also Nevi'im.

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