What Does “Oracle” Mean in the Bible?
A message from God spoken by a prophet.
A detail
- In the Douay-Rheims: “oracle” is also the propitiatory, the golden cover of the Ark of the Covenant, where God made himself present.
Where it appears in the Bible
Exodus 25:18; Leviticus 16:2
What the Bible says
Exodus 25:18
Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle.
Leviticus 16:2
And he commanded him, saying, Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle,)
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “oráculo”