1 utterance, declaration, revelation, of prophet in ecstatic state בלעם ׳נ Numbers 24:3,15; שֹׁמֵעַ אִמְרֵי אֵל ׳נ Numbers 24:4; Numbers 24:6; הַגֶּבֶר ׳נ Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:15; 2 Samuel 23:1; Proverbs 30:1; דוד ׳נ 2 Samuel 23:1; מֶּשַׁע ׳נ Psalm 36:2 (transgression personified, speaking with prophetic voice בְּקֶרֶב לִבּוֺ); elsewhere always

2 before divine names (except Jeremiah 23:31 see

verb): יהוה ׳נ utterance, declaration of ׳י (prophet citing divine word given through him), Genesis 22:16 (J), Numbers 14:28 (P), 2 Kings 9:26 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 19:33 = Isaiah 37:34; 2 Kings 22:19 2Chronicles 34:27; Isaiah 14:22; Isaiah 30:1; Isaiah 31:9; Ezekiel 13:6,7; Ezekiel 16:58; Ezekiel 37:14; Hosea 2:15; Hosea 2:18; Hosea 2:23; Hosea 11:11; Joel 2:12; Obadiah 4,8; Micah 4:6; Micah 5:9; Zephaniah 1:2,3,10; Zephaniah 3:8; Zechariah 8:17; Zechariah 10:12; Zechariah 11:6; Zechariah 12:1,4; Zechariah 13:8; Malachi 1:2 + Isa²12t.; Jeremiah 162 t.; Amos 14 t.; Haggai 5 t.; Zech¹ (Zechariah 1-8) 6 t.; followed by אלהי ישׂראל 1 Samuel 2:30; Isaiah 17:6; אֱלֹהֵי ׳י (הַ)צְבָאוֺת Amos 6:8,14; צְבָאוֺת ׳י ׳נ Isaiah 14:22,23; Isaiah 17:3; Isaiah 22:25; Jeremiah 8:3; Jeremiah 25:29; Jeremiah 30:8; Jeremiah 49:26; Nahum 2:14; Nahum 3:5; Zechariah 13:2,7 + Haggai 5 t.; Zech¹ (Zechariah 1-8) 7 t.; followed by אלהי ישׂראל Zephaniah 2:9; ׳צ ׳האדון י Isaiah 1:24; Isaiah 19:4; ׳אֶלֹהֵי הַצּ ׳אֲדֹנָי י Amos 3:13; ׳צ ׳אדני י Isaiah 3:15; Jeremiah 49:5; ׳צ ׳הַמֶּלֶךְ י Jeremiah 46:18; Jeremiah 48:15; Jer 57:57; אדני יהוה ׳נ Isaiah 56:8; Jeremiah 2:22; Amos 4:5; Amos 8:3,9,11 + Ezekiel 82 t. נְאֻם begins sentence only Isaiah 56:8; Psalm 110:1; often in middle Isaiah 49:18; Amos 3:10 +; most frequently at end Isaiah 54:17; Amos 2:11; Amos 4:3 +; found in all prophets except Habakkuk, Jonah; not in H D of Hexateuch, Chronicles (except "" Kings), Daniel, Job or the five Megilloth.