A Primer for Visions, Dreams and
Prophecies (INCOMPLETE)
The Seer as the “one
who sees” in the Hebrew and the “glancing one” in the Septuagint.)
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The Septuagint (70 books) is the Greek translation of the
OT.
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The Septuagint or the Greek OT defines “seer” as the “glancing
one.” The prophet simply needs to
glance and see in the Spirit to the point that he or she instinctively knows
what the Lord says, not needing the acquisition or learning of progressive
knowledge, which is discernment. They
can then prophesy by this type of spiritual glancing, and seeing to produce
instinctive knowledge.
I Sam 9: 18 Septuagint ¶ And Saul {1} drew near to Samuel into the midst of the
city, and said, Tell me now {2} which is the house of the seer? (Which is the
house of the glancing one?)
1 Sam 9:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me
unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let
thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
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A high place- the possession of key terrains to the extent of the
acquisition of firm control in the spiritual realm.
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The dignity of the prophet.
The ability to declare to others what is within their hearts.
Visions as a Documentation
of History
2 Chronicles 9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not
written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the
Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of
Nebat?
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The only instance
of the use of this particular genre of vision amongst a broad family of
visions. In this case the visions of
Iddo represented part of the historical collection pertaining to the life of
Jeroboam.
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Visions prompted through an Ecstatic State.
(The Strong’s family of visions # 1611 in
the NT and # 04236 in the OT)
Ekstatis ( Strong’s #
1611)
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That of a
man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it were out of himself, so
that in this rapt condition, although he is awake, his mind is drawn off
from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed on things divine that he sees
nothing but the forms and images lying within, and thinks that he perceives
with his bodily eyes and ears realities shown him by God.
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The result of
being so immersed in the Spirit of God, in which the Spirit of God floods,
titillates, and controls all of the sensory perceptions of the minister.
Acts
10:10 And he became very hungry, and would have
eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance
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Greek: Fell
upon him ekstatis.
Ac 11:5 I
was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it
had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even
to me:
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Greek; I
saw (seeing that creates knowledge) in ecstasy, a vision.
Ac 22:17 And it came to pass,
that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I
was in a trance
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Greek: I became in ecstasy.
Gen 15:1 ¶ After these things the word of the LORD came
unto Abram in a vision, saying (rhematic discourse), Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and
thy exceeding great reward.
Hebrew:
The logos ( concept) word of the Lord came to Abram rhematically speaking.
Sept:1 ¶ And after these things the word of the
Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I shield thee, thy
reward shall be very great.
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Septuagint;
The rhema word of the Lord came “ into fellowship” with Abram in the
sphere or the Septuagint
tells us that God uses visions to give us rhema words.
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A trance type of vision, or a vision in an ecstatic state.
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This family
of visions has a prophetic function to it.
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Prompted through
a state of spiritual ecstasy
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This type of
vision can occur while in an awaken state.
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The following are the other three scriptural instances of this
genre of vision. The #0436 is the Strong’s number associated with
it.
Numb 24:3 And
he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man
whose eyes are open
hath said:
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( Septuagint)3 And he took up his parable and said, Balaam son of Beor says, the
man who sees truly says, The man who
discerns with accurateness and according to fact.
4 he
says who hears the oracle(
Who is hearing the
rhematic discourse of God) of the Mighty One, who saw a vision of God( Who saw the vision of God with
discernment) in sleep; his eyes were opened:( uncovered as in “apocalypses” spiritual
revelation)
Nu 24:4 He hath said, which heard
the words of God, which saw
the vision of the Almighty,
falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
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Septuagint:
Who discerned the vision of God while in the realm of sleep, his eyes being
uncovered. (Spiritual
eyes.)
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The
Septuagint tells us that in Balaam’s physical eyes being asleep caused his
spiritual eyes to be opened. To the
proportion that we close our natural sensory perceptions as we submerge
ourselves into the world of the Holy Spirit is to the proportion that our
spiritual sensory perceptions will be opened.
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Please
observe with me the Hebrew exegesis of the same verses, as follows.
Numb
24:3 And he took up TWOT-1421; v his parable, and said) to say, speak, utter, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and
the man whose eyes are open hath said:
· Balam has his outer senses closed so that he could have his
inner senses opened. The outer perception is closed to the world so that the
inner one could be opened.
· Whose (spiritual) eyes are unclosed has
uttered prophetically as and oracle of God through the unclosed condition of
his spiritual eyes.
4 He hath said, which heard the words of God (The rhematic sayings of God), which
saw the vision of the Almighty(Shadday) TWOT-2333);, falling (to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself
before) into a trance, but having his eyes open:
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Falling down by the power of
God
· Hebrew translation; He has uttered forth prophetically as he is
hearing the “rhematic discourse “of God. This being the result of seeing
visions of God, which have given him revelations to speak forth prophetically.
These visions came while in a trance, where his spiritual eyes were made naked.
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Our spiritual
eyes must be made naked and unclosed if we are to truly minister in the Spirit.
Eze 13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination,
hereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
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A trance type of vision, or a vision in an ecstatic state.
·
This family
of visions has a prophetic function to it.
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Prompted
through a state of spiritual ecstasy
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This type of
vision can occur while in an awaken state.
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The following are the other three scriptural instances of this
genre of vision.
Ecstatic
Prophesying
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The seer, the “Hozeh” or “Roeh”, in the Hebrew is
the “seeing one.
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In the
Septuagint, he or she is called the “glancing one.”
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The seer is
the prophet that sees in the Spirit in the dimension of visions and dreams,
Most of these prophetic revelations occur within the realm of the personal
relationship with the Lord. The reception of dreams and visions is the product
of the prophet’s personal communion with the Lord. The messenger as to his or
her subjective work in receiving revelations from the Lord.
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The prophet,
as to public ministry is the “Nabiy” or spokesperson for the Lord. The prophet obtains privately from the Lord
in the mode of a seer, and speaks out publicly in the mode of a prophet or
“Nabiy.” The Nabiy is the objective or active work of the messenger.
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The “Nabiy” is defined as the
one “who bubbles up” or “speaks in a frenzy”.
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The culmination of the
prophet’s office to speak as a Nabiy ecstatic state. In this manner of speaking,
the prophet’s vocal chords are under the control and the impulses of the Lord’s
mouth deep within their spirit.
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When I was asking the Lord
how to speaks in this ecstatically activated “frenzied manner”, or by the
speaking forth of God’s rhema discourse as it bubbles up from within the
spirit, the Lord showed me ‘His mouth” deep in my spirit.
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Please look with me at some
of the following scriptures that will confirm this.
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Notice the Hebrew translation according to the commandment of the LORD should
really translate as “At the mouth of Yahweh”. Please look with me at some of the
following scriptures to confirm this.
Exodus
17:1 And all the congregation of the children of
Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the
LORD
(As by the mouth of Yahweh), and pitched in
Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Numbers
4:37 These were they that were numbered of the
families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD(At the mouth of Yahweh), by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
4:41 These are they that were numbered of the
families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle
of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment (At the mouth of Yahweh), of the LORD.
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When we speak with our human mouths,
we do not think of what we are going to say. Our instinctual thought patterns
are perfectly synchronized with our mouths so that the thoughts, which are
created, are vocalized as utterances almost simultaneously.
· When we speak ecstatically “at the
mouth of God”, His mouth, deep within our spirits, seizes and titillates
our vocal chords in the same way that our mind seizes and titillates our vocal
chords when we speak from a human standpoint.
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The deeper that we live in
the world of the Spirit, the closer that we live “By the mouth of the Lord”
which dwells deep within our spirits. Likewise, the more that the Lord’s mouth
will be able to influence and titillate our vocal chords to bring forth His
rhematic discourses.
Mat 3:11 I
indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is
mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
· I am not sure if the expression “and
with fire” is in the Greek mood “of location” (IN FIRE) or the one of
“instrumentality” (WITH FIRE).
· In either case it does not really
matter. We have been submerged not only
into the world of the Holy Spirit, but likewise into the world of the Holy
Spirit’s fire.
· We have been taught, that the baptism of
fire is what the Lord uses to purge and purify us. However, fire also has the
property, which heats and causes water to boil.
· Therefore, the deeper that we live in the world
of the Spirit, the more in contact we shall come with that fire which causes
the ministry of the NABIY to come forth as he or she speaks up through the
bubbling up, or the frenzying of the Spirit’s water as they boil up by the
action of the “baptism with fire.”
· My friend Leo Lesaca, like wise saw a
vision in which we become engorged with the fullness of the Spirit, and the
rhematic discourses of God are literally vomited out of our mouths.
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Gen 46:2 And God spake unto Israel
in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
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God speaks
in the sphere or in the world of a vision
Ex
38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot
of it of brass, of the lookingglasses
of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
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Looking
glass or mirror is the same word used for this type of vision.
Nu
12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be
a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream.
SEPT: 6 And he said to them, Hear my words: If there should be of you a
prophet to the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him.
(In sleep I will
utter “prophetically” to him.)
Eze
1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year,
in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives
by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw(discerned) visions <04759> of God.
Eze
8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and
took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth
and the heaven, and brought me in the visions <04759> of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the
inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
which provoketh to jealousy.
SEPT3 And he stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the
crown of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a
vision ( and
led me into Jerusalem in the sphere of, or by a vision) of God, to the porch
of the {1} gate that looks to the north, where was
the pillar of the {2} Purchaser. {1)
Eze
40:2 In the visions <04759> of God brought he me into the land of
Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a
city on the south.
SEPT1
¶ And it came
to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the
tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in
that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me
2
in a vision of God into the land of Israel ( And led me in a vision or by a vision into the land of
Israel), and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it there was as it
were the frame of a city before me.
Da
10:7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision <04759>: for the men that were with me saw not
the vision <04759>; but a great quaking fell upon them, so
that they fled to hide themselves.
Sept:
7 And I Daniel only saw the vision (a sight, a vision, an appearance
presented to one whether asleep or awake): and the men that were with me
saw not the vision(a
sight, a vision, an appearance presented to one whether asleep or awake) ;
but a great amazement fell
upon them (a great ecstasy fell upon them), and they fled
in fear.
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Related Hebrew
words for the vision described in the Septuagint in verse seven
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Strong’s
04758 mar’eh- sight, phenomenon, spectacle, appearance, vision
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# 04759 mar’ah-
mode of revelation; mirror
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# 07200 –“To
see”
Nu 12:8 With him will I
speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the
similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to
speak against my servant Moses?
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Septuagint-
“Mouth, according to mouth.”
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In other words, the very life; (its
regulations, restrictions, and boundaries dictating the prophet’s life as it
consumes him,) is the mouth of the Lord dwelling within the prophet’s spirit. God’s spiritual mouth must be revealed
within the prophet as it controls the prophets’ mouth, by opening it and
bubbling up to it the rhematic discourse of the Lord.
Psalms 89:19 ¶ Then thou spakest in vision (VISION
RESPECTING FUTURE EVENTS, PROPHETIC VISION, AN UTTERED ORACLE IN AN ECSTATIC
STATE FROM THE MOUTH OF THE LORD) to thy holy one, and saidst ( RHEMA), I have
laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
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Septuagint: You uttered in the realm or in the world of a vision.
The Mantle of
Elijah
2
King 2:8 And Elijah took his mantle TWOT-28c , and wrapped it together TWOT-354, and smote (Hiphil-Imperfect) the waters, and they were divided hither
and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
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· Mantle comes from what is majestic;
because it is a costly robe.
9
¶ And it came
to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall
do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double TWOT-2421a portion TWOT-1738; of thy spirit be upon me.
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“A double portion” Hebrew translation “DUAL MOUTHS”
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The double portion of God’s
Spirit is not a multiplication or stacking up of the Spirit’s power. It is not
a “doubling up” of an item. The Hebrew
tells us that it signifies ‘duality” or “two’s”
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A double portion can be
likened to two set of wheels in a big truck that gives it stability, or seeing
through the two eye pieces of a binocular which gives fullness of vision, or
the counsel of two mouths which gives us wisdom.
The Ministry of
Daniel
Dan
5:12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, pre-eminent, surpassing, extreme, extraordinary and knowledge TWOT-2765a, 2834, and understanding, TWOT-3009a interpreting (Explain)
of dreams, and shewing of
hard sentences(Declaration of enigmas and riddles), and dissolving of doubts ( Solution to
difficult and complicated problems; all BY the Instrumentality of Spirit of God, were found in the same Daniel, whom the
king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the
interpretation.
· An excellent spirit – Excessive, abundant,
preeminent, and surpassing. (The requirement
to move in the deep riches of God.)
· Lit; “ interpreting dreams, explanations
of mysteries, and dissolving knots
Gen
20:3 ¶ But God came to Abimelech in a dream
by night(God entered in BY a dream), and said to him dream (with prophetic meaning) ( a Rhematic discourse BY means
of a dream; the importance of dreams in our lives), Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the
woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
Sept 3
¶ And God came to Abimelech by
night in sleep ( came God into fellowship with Abimelech in the sphere
of the sleep of the night), and said, Behold, thou diest for the woman, whom
thou hast taken, whereas she has lived with a husband.
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The
Septuagint tells us that God uses the world of sleep to fellowship with us.
6 And God
said unto him in a dream,) dream (with prophetic meaning) (God was speaking
to him in a continuum of time through a
rhematic dialogue BY means of a dream) Yea, I know that
thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from
sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
SEPT 6 And God said
to him in sleep ( According to sleep), Yea, I knew that thou didst this with a
pure heart, and I spared thee, so that thou shouldest not sin against me,
therefore I suffered thee not to touch her.
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According
to sleep: Sleep was the boundary, or requirement for
God to speak to him.
1King 3:5 ¶ In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon (Passive tense: This is grammatical tense
of prophetical revelation) in
a dream( dream with
prophetic meaning) by
night: and God said, Ask what I shall
give thee.
· Solomon’s great calling and
ministry was initiated through a dream!
SEPT 5 ¶
And the Lord appeared to
Solomon in a dream by night( , and the Lord said to Solomon, Ask some
petition for thyself.
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Septuagint: “The
Lord seen with discernment occurred in the world of the sleep of the night.
Dan 2:26 The
king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to
make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
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To make known to
communicate or inform me
·
I have
seen
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Interpretation
28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth TWOT-2656 secrets TWOT-2993 Peal Participle Active, and maketh known to the king
Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of
thy head upon thy bed, are these
· Revealeth (Piel part.)
· Maketh known” perfect
tense
· TWOT 2725A Visions
· TWOT 2730
Dream
Dan 4:5 I
saw TWOT-2725; 1a1) to
see1a2) to see, behold, witness1a3) to behold (in a dream or vision)1a4)
customary, seemly (passive)
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a dream TWOT-2730; which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the
visions TWOT-2725a of my head troubled me.
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TWOT 2725 Piel perf. I saw
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TWOT 2700 Thoughts
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TWOT 2725A Visions
9 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians,
because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret
troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the
interpretation thereof.
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TWOT 2725A Visions
Isaiah 30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy hzx chazah
TWOT-633; to see, behold1a2) to see as a seer in the ecstatic state1a3) to see, perceive1a3a) with the intelligence1a3b) to see (by experience)1a3c) to provide
not unto us right things, speak unto us
smooth things, prophesy deceits:
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Rhematic discourse Qal
perfect
·
Seer “seeing One”
Num
11:26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one
was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested TWOT-1323; upon them; and they were of them that were
written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied
-Hithpael
-Imperfect in
the camp.
· Rested TWOT 1323 Qal imperf (Abide)
· Prophesied TWOT 1277 reflexive
imperfect
Exodus
15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of
Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with
timbrels and with dances.
21
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the
LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown
into the sea.
1Sam
9:6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in
this city a man of God, and he is an honourable TWOT-943
passive man; all that
he saith piel
imperfect cometh
TWOT-212; surely to
pass TWOT-212;: now let us go thither; peradventure he
can shew TWOT-1289 us our way that we should go.
1
Sam 10:5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of
God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when
thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets
coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and
a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: Hithpael Participle
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Psaltery; harp, guitar, lute
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Tabret tambourine
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Pipe flute
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Harp harp
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Reflexive participle:
Prophecy
6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon TWOT-1916,1917 thee, and thou shalt prophesy Hithpael
-Perfect with them, and shalt be
turned TWOT-512 into another man.
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The Spirit of God seized Saul
who came in contact with the band of prophets and caused him to become
associated with them as the musical instruments brought them into an ecstatic
state.
1 Sam 19:23 And he went thither
to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on,
and prophesied
Hithpael -Imperfect ,
until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
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Reflexive imperfect:
Prophecy
24
24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and
prophesied before Samuel in
like manner, and lay down TWOT-1392
naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among
the prophets?
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Prophesied in the reflexive
imperfect prostrated bare and naked (ecstatic ministry)
Acts
21:10 And as we tarried there many days, there came
down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
11
And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s
girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost,
So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall
deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
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Acts 22:17 And it came to pass,
that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed