In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

The Book of Lamentations (, Eikhah, ʾēkhā ( h )) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah.

" in some Latin commentaries, from the Greek threnoi = Hebrew qinoth ) now in common use, to denote the character of the book, in which the prophet mourns over the desolations brought on Jerusalem and the Holy Land by the Chaldeans.

It tells the story of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah ben Amittai who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh but tries to escape the divine mission.

The Book of Zechariah, attributed to the prophet Zechariah, is included in the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and is the penultimate book of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Abraham is stated to have originally been from " Ur of the Chaldees " ( Ur Kasdim ); if this city is to be identified with the Sumerian Ur, it would be within the original Chaldean homeland south of the Euphrates, although Chaldeans were not extant in Mesopotamia at the time of Abraham.

In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Ezekiel is acknowledged as a Hebrew prophet.

Habakkuk ( or ; ; ; also spelled Habacuc ), was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible.

Isaiah is mentioned as a prophet in Ibn kathir's Stories of the Prophets and the modern writers Muhammad Asad and Abdullah Yusuf Ali accepted Isaiah as a true Hebrew prophet, who preached to the Israelites following the death of King David.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

" The word, " midrash " occurs twice in the Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles 13: 22 " in the midrash of the prophet Iddo ", and 24: 27 " in the midrash of the Book of the Kings.

Moses (, ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.

Christians believe that Daniel ( Hebrew: ד ָּ נ ִ י ֵּ אל, or Daniyyel ) was a prophet and gave an indication of when the Messiah, the prince mashiyach nagiyd, would come in the Prophecy of Seventy Weeks.

Malachi, Malachias or Mal ' achi (; ) was a Jewish prophet in the Hebrew Bible.

The prophet speaks of the " people's governor " ( Hebrew " pechah ", Malachi 1: 8 ), as do Haggai and Nehemiah ( Haggai 1: 1 ; Nehemiah 5: 14 ; Nehemiah 12: 26 ).

Nahum ( or ; ) was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Hebrew Bible.

In Hebrew, the word נ ְ ב ִ יא ( navi ), " spokesperson ", traditionally translates as " prophet ".

The Qur ' an goes on to state that a king was anointed by the prophet, whose name was Talut ( Saul in the Hebrew Bible ).

For example, the Hebrew prophet Samuel, would " lie down and sleep in the temple at Shiloh before the Ark and receive the word of the Lord.

Abrahamic religions are those religions deriving from a common ancient Semitic tradition and traced by their adherents to Abraham ( circa 1900 BCE ), a patriarch whose life is narrated in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, where he is described as a prophet ( Genesis 20: 7 ), and in the Quran, where he also appears as a prophet.

Hebrew ： י ִ ר ְ מ ְ י ָ ה, Modern Hebrew: Yirməyāhū, IPA: jirməˈjaːhu, Tiberian: Yirmĭyahu, Greek: Ἰερεμίας, ) meaning " Yah exalts ", also called the " Weeping prophet " was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible.

The Book of Jeremiah () is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve.

The Book of Isaiah () is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, preceding Ezekiel, Jeremiah and the Book of the Twelve.

Isaiah is the most quoted of all the books of the Hebrew Bible outside of the Torah.

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The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah and preceding the Book of the Twelve.

Hence the Biblical " Galilee of the Nations ", Hebrew " galil goyim "( Isaiah 9: 1 ).

The Garden of Eden ( Hebrew ג ַּ ן ע ֵ ד ֶ ן, Gan ʿEdhen ), is the biblical " garden of God ", described most notably in the Book of Genesis ( Genesis 2-3 ), but also mentioned, directly or indirectly, in Ezekiel, Isaiah and elsewhere in the Old Testament.

The exile community in Babylon thus became the source of significant portions of the Hebrew Bible: Isaiah 40 – 55, Ezekiel, the final version of Jeremiah, the work of the Priestly source in the Pentateuch, and the final form of the history of Israel from Deuteronomy to 2 Kings Theologically, they were responsible for the doctrines of individual responsibility and universalism ( the concept that one god controls the entire world ), and for the increased emphasis on purity and holiness.

( Found once in Psalm 51: 11 and twice in Isaiah 63: 10, 11 ) Although, the term " spirit " in the Hebrew Scriptures, in reference to " God's spirit ", does occur more times.

The term ruach ha-kodesh ( Hebrew: רוח הקודש, " holy spirit " also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) occurs once in Psalm 51: 11 and also twice in the Book of Isaiah Those are the only three times that the precise phrase " ruach hakodesh " is used in the Hebrew Scriptures, although the noun ruach ( רוח, literally " breath " or " wind ") in various combinations, some referring to God's " spirit ", is used often.

The Hebrew term in Isaiah 14: 12, became a dominant conception of a fallen angel motif in Enochic Judaism, when Jewish pseudepigrapha flourished during the Second Temple period, particularly with the apocalypses.

Christians believe that prophecies in the Hebrew Bible ( especially Isaiah ) refer to a spiritual savior and believe Jesus to be that Messiah ( Christ ).

In a 9th century manuscript containing the Latin Vulgate translation of the Book of Isaiah, the word Lamia is used to translate the Hebrew Lilith.

One conjecture holds that " Nazareth " is derived from one of the Hebrew words for ' branch ', namely ne · ṣer, נ ֵ֫ צ ֶ ר, and alludes to the prophetic, messianic words in Book of Isaiah 11: 1, ' from ( Jesse's ) roots a Branch ( netzer ) will bear fruit.

The Vatican Persian cock denoting a sacred and religious vessel acknowledged by and from the Vatican, " a girt one of the loins " of Proverbs 30: 31, the Hebrew zarzir, Arabic sarsar, Greek alektor, French coq, Persian bird, Persian cock or the acknowledged rooster from the Hebrew Torah, the Christian Old Testament, the Holy Scriptures of Job, Isaiah and of the Apostles John, Luke, Matthew and Mark, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ may still further be viewed through " A Dictionary of the Bible " which tells us that " Pindar ( ca.

< center > Nymphs and Satyr ( William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873 )</ center > In many versions of the Bible, Isaiah 13: 21 and 34: 14, the English word " satyr " is used to represent the Hebrew se ' irim, " hairy ones ," from " sa ' ir " or " goat ".

Although Jerome, who produced the Latin Vulgate version of the Scriptures, used the word " sirens " to translate Hebrew tenim ( jackals ) in Isaiah 13: 22, and also to translate a word for " owls " in Jeremiah 50: 39, this was explained by Ambrose to be a mere symbol or allegory for worldly temptations, and not an endorsement of the Greek myth.

Chapter 14 of the Book of Isaiah refers to what Jewish exegesis of the prophetic vision of Isaiah 14: 12-15 identifies as King Nebuchadnezzar II ; the Hebrew word says " Helel ben Shaḥar " (" the shining one, son of the morning ").

The speech he delivered, in the Hebrew language, in the hearing of all the people, as he stood near the wall on the north side of the city, is quoted in 2 Kings 18: 27 – 37 and Isaiah 36: 12 – 20:

The great editions of the Hebrew Bible with rabbinical commentaries contained also commentaries of Ibn Ezra's on the following books of the Bible: Isaiah, Minor Prophets, Psalms, Job, Pentateuch, Daniel ; the commentaries on Proverbs, Ezra and Nehemiah which bear his name are really those of Moses Kimhi.