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n. - The second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures.

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  • In such a phenomenon, occurring in the East, there was nothing intrinsically strange; among the Canaanites, such "Nebiim" -- for so they were styled -- had long been...
  • In the original view of the matter (chaps.ix. x.) he appears alone and independent, and has nothing to do with the companies of the ecstatics, the Nebiim.
  • He was not himself one of the Nebiim; on the contrary, he was a seer of that old type which had for a long time existed amongst the Hebrews much as we find it amongst...
  • First-rate importance on the whole cannot be claimed for the Nebiim, but occasionally there arose amongst them a man in whom the spirit which was cultivated within their...
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