REVOLT, defection — a noun from sur, to turn aside: what is spoken when somebody talks a people off its road. ⭐ Dibber sarah, ‘he has spoken revolt’, is the formal charge against a false prophet at Deuteronomy 13:6, and the noun stands in only two verses of the Torah — that one and Deuteronomy 19:16, where it is what a malicious witness testifies. ⭐ The two prophets convicted in those exact words are Hananiah at Jeremiah 28:16 and Shemaiah at Jeremiah 29:32: the statute is in Deuteronomy, and the only two prosecutions under it that name a defendant are in Jeremiah, both already on these pages. ⚠ Not to be confused with Sarah the matriarch, which is a different word with a different first letter (שָׂרָה, sin, not samekh). ⭐ The second of the two is now on these pages: at Deuteronomy 19:16 a malicious witness rises to answer against him with revolt — the false prophet’s charge, moved into a courtroom and aimed at a neighbour. ⚠ Four of the six revisable shelf witnesses have dropped it: the NWT 1984’s ‘a charge of revolt’ becomes ‘some transgression’ in 2013, the TNM 1987’s «sublevación» becomes «violar alguna ley» in 2019, and the RV 1909’s «rebelión» is deleted outright by the RV60. Losing the noun loses the link between the two offences. → first discussed at Deut 13:6