The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

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902. Nabal—Fool. Wicked. A churlish man who denied David provisions from his abundance when the king-to-be was on the run from Saul. His wife Abigail spared David the judgment of killing him in his ire, which God eventually did and gave the man’s wife and possessions to His crown king. 1 Samuel 25. 903. Nabi—The Hebrew word for the official prophet. 904. Nabi Institution—The ancient prophetic institution that was integral to early cultures and their officials. The institution was well organized and treated as a professional career whose spiritual value was equally as important as what we would call a secular career. The members of this group formed powerful guilds in their days that spiritually upheld every major arena of work. Ahab’s staff prophets and part of his wife Jezebel’s eight-hundred-fifty-man prophetic corps are biblical examples. 905. Nabiim—The plural of the word nabi for the Hebrew prophet. The word refers to more than one prophet; in particular it refers to a prophetic council or company, such as that under Samuel in 2 Samuel 10. 906. Nabu—Babylonian god of learning, oration, and literature. This deity was also believed by the ancient Babylonians to be the spirit that empowered the prophets. 907. Nahum—A colleague of the prophet Jonah, he is a minor prophet whose name means “God’s comfort,” or “God’s consolation.” He too prophesies Nineveh’s fall, which happened forty-nine years after the prophecy. Nahum’s was a call to defend God’s actions and attitudes toward His people and verbalize His reasons for reacting so harshly to their mistreatment and violation of His covenant. 908. Naked—When encountered in prophetic context, nakedness signifies vulnerability, primitivity, poverty, and shame. To be stripped naked is to be exposed to humiliation. To be branded as captured by an enemy, the captors