Prophētēs προφήτης

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Prophētēs
προφήτης
Transliterationprophētēs
Strong's numberG4396
LanguageGreek
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossprophet
Occurrences149 in 143 verses
Most frequent inMatthew (36)

Prophētēs (Greek προφήτης, Strong's G4396) is a Greek masculine noun meaning “prophet”. It occurs 149 times in 143 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

προφήτης, -ου, ὁ [πρόφημι, to speak forth),
[in LXX chiefly for נָבִיא ;]
one who acts as an interpreter or forth-teller of the Divine will (see Lft., Notes, 83f.; Tr., Syn., §vi), a prophet;
1. in cl. (Æsch., Hdt., Plat., al.), of the interpreters of oracles.
2. In NT,
(a) of the OT prophets: Mat.5:12, Mrk.6:15, Luk.4:27, Jhn.8:52, Rom.11:3, al.;
(b) of prophets in general: Mat.10:41 13:57 21:46, Mrk.6:4, Luk.13:33, al.;
(with) of John the Baptist: Mat.21:26, Mrk.6:15, Luk.1:76;
(d) of Christ: Mat.21:11, Jhn.6:14, Act.3:22, 23 7:37" (LXX) ;
(e) of Christian prophets in the apostolic age: Act.15:32, 1Co.12:28, Eph.2:20, al.;
(f) by meton., of the writings of prophets: Luk.24:27, Act.8:28, al.;
(g) of a poet: Tit.1:12 (on the use of the term in π. and Inscr., see Deiss., BS, 235f.; MM, xxii).
(AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVprophets (80), prophet (67), prophet's (1), unto the prophets (1)
BSBprophets (78), prophet (60), prophet's (2), than a prophet (2)

Topics

Verses

Every verse with Prophētēs, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Romans

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

1 Thessalonians

Titus

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

2 Peter

Revelation

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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