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προφήτης

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greekNew TestamentNoun · masculine144 occurrences15 books138 verses

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: Matthew 5:12, Mark 6:15, Luke 4:27, John 8:52, Romans 11:3, al.;

(b) of prophets in general: Matthew 10:41; 13:57; 21:46, Mark 6:4, Luke 13:33, al.;

(with) of John the Baptist: Matthew 21:26, Mark 6:15, Luke 1:76;

(d) of Christ: Matthew 21:11, John 6:14, Acts 3:22, 23; 7:37" (LXX) ;

(e) of Christian prophets in the apostolic age: Acts 15:32, 1 Corinthians 12:28, Ephesians 2:20, al.;

(f) by meton., of the writings of prophets: Luke 24:27, Acts 8:28, al.;

(g) of a poet: Titus 1:12 (on the use of the term in π. and Inscr., see Deiss., BS, 235f.; MM, xxii).

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as προφήτης:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

144 total
  1. Luke 7:16Προφήτης · prophet
    A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”
  2. Luke 7:26προφήτην · A prophet; προφήτου · than a prophet
    What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
  3. Luke 7:39προφήτης · a prophet
    When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”
  4. Luke 9:8προφήτης · prophet
    …others that Elijah had appeared, and still others that a prophet of old had arisen.
  5. Luke 9:19προφήτης · a prophet
    They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that a prophet of old has arisen.”
  6. Luke 10:24προφῆται · prophets
    For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”
  7. Luke 11:47προφητῶν · prophets
    Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
  8. Luke 11:49προφήτας · prophets
    Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’
  9. Luke 11:50προφητῶν · prophets
    As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
  10. Luke 13:28προφήτας · prophets
    There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.
  11. Luke 13:33προφήτην · a prophet
    Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
  12. Luke 13:34προφήτας · prophets
    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
  13. Luke 16:16προφῆται · Prophets [were proclaimed]
    The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
  14. Luke 16:29προφήτας · Prophets
    But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’
  15. Luke 16:31προφητῶν · Prophets
    Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
  16. Luke 18:31προφητῶν · prophets
    Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
  17. Luke 20:6προφήτην · a prophet
    But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
  18. Luke 24:19προφήτης · a prophet
    “What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.
  19. Luke 24:25προφῆται · prophets
    Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
  20. Luke 24:27προφητῶν · Prophets
    And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.
  21. Luke 24:44προφήταις · Prophets
    Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
  22. John 1:21προφήτης · Prophet
    “Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
  23. John 1:23προφήτης · prophet
    John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
  24. John 1:25προφήτης · Prophet
    …asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
  25. John 1:45προφῆται · prophets [foretold]
    Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
  26. John 4:19προφήτης · a prophet
    “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.
  27. John 4:44προφήτης · a prophet
    Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.
  28. John 6:14προφήτης · Prophet
    When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
  29. John 6:45προφήταις · Prophets
    It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
  30. John 7:40προφήτης · Prophet
    On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
  31. John 7:52προφήτης · prophet
    “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”
  32. John 8:52προφῆται · prophets
    “Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
  33. John 8:53προφῆται · prophets
    Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”
  34. John 9:17Προφήτης · a prophet
    So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.
  35. John 12:38προφήτου · prophet
    This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
  36. Acts 2:16προφήτου · prophet
    No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
  37. Acts 2:30προφήτης · a prophet
    But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
  38. Acts 3:18προφητῶν · prophets
    But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
  39. Acts 3:21προφητῶν · prophets
    Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.
  40. Acts 3:22Προφήτην · a prophet
    For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
  41. Acts 3:23προφήτου · [ to Him ]
    Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’
  42. Acts 3:24προφῆται · prophets
    Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.
  43. Acts 3:25προφητῶν · prophets
    And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
  44. Acts 7:37Προφήτην · a prophet
    This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
  45. Acts 7:42προφητῶν · prophets
    But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
  46. Acts 7:48προφήτης · prophet
    However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
  47. Acts 7:52προφητῶν · prophets
    Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
  48. Acts 8:28προφήτην · prophet
    …and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.
  49. Acts 8:30προφήτην · prophet
    So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.