Prophet — its FIRST occurrence in the Bible is Abraham (20:7), and note what defines the office there: not prediction but INTERCESSION — 'he will pray for you, and you shall live.' A prophet is one who stands between. ⚠ Numbers 11:29 (already on these pages) is the office at its least exclusive: told that two men are prophesying off-site without authorization, and urged by Joshua to shut them down, Moses answers 'would that ALL Jehovah's people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his spirit on them' — the holder of the office wishing it on everyone, against his own monopoly. ⚠ One chapter later that wish is thrown back at him as a grievance: Miriam and Aaron ask 'has Jehovah spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us as well?' (Numbers 12:2, already on these pages) — the same claim Moses had just blessed, now made as a complaint. God's answer is the Bible's nearest thing to a definition of the office: an ordinary navi receives a vision and a dream, both mediated; Moses is the exception, spoken with mouth to mouth. → first discussed at Gen 20:7