(נְבַיאָה, nebiah, προφῆτις, Exodus 15:20; Luke 2:36). Among the remarkable women who appear to have exercised the gift of prophecy, we find Miriam (Exodus 15:20); Deborah; Hannah (1 Samuel 2:1); Huldah (2 Kings 22:14); the wife of Isaiah (Isaiah 8:3); Anna (Luke 2:36); and the four daughters of Philip (Acts 21:8-9). Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, and others were called prophetesses, not because they were supposed to be gifted with a knowledge of futurity, like the seers, but because they possessed a poetical inspiration; and inspired (especially sacred) poetry was always deemed of supernatural and divine origin. (See PROPHET).