Words the Bible translates as oracle
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ne'umנְאֻםa solemn declaration: the binding pronouncement of a named speaker, used almost always as the prophetic tag "declares the LORD"
- massaמַשָּׂאan oracle: a weighty pronouncement from God delivered through a prophet, most often a sentence of doom against a nation.
+2 more meanings
- a burden: a load that is lifted and carried, whether goods on an animal's back or a weight laid on a person.
- the carrying of song: a term for the performance of music in worship, used of the Levite who directed it.
- devirדְּבִירthe innermost, rearmost room of Solomon's temple: the windowless inner chamber that housed the ark of the covenant.
- qesemקֶסֶםdivination: the attempt to obtain hidden or future knowledge by working a ritual procedure, and the answer such a procedure delivers
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