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MAN OF GOD

A term used primarily for prophets. It serves as an appellation for Moses (the prototypical prophet for the Deuteronomistic historians), Samuel, Shemaiah, Elijah, Elisha, Igdaliah, several unnamed prophets, and even David (the latter only in the Chronicler’s account). Though the term is applied far more frequently to Elisha than to any other figure, perhaps the most recognized “man of God” is the unnamed prophet of Judah of 1 Kgs. 13 who travels to Bethel to announce Yahweh’s judgment on Jeroboam I and his idolatrous altar, only to be deceived by a fellow prophet and forfeit his life as punishment.

In the NT the phrase appears in the Pastoral Epistles and in some manuscript traditions of 2 Pet. 1:21. Here the prophetic connotation is absent, and the phrase is used of followers of God, especially leaders in the Church.

James R. Adair, Jr.






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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