Gloss
prophet, one who speaks inspired utterances; the writings of the OT prophets; see also {4735}
Forms of the word
Dictionary
προφήτης, -ου, ὁ
Greek transliteration
prophētēs
Simplified transliteration
prophetes
Numbers
Strong's number
4396
GK Number
4737
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
144
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-1f
Definition
pr. a spokesman for another; spc. a spokesman or interpreter for a deity; a prophet, seer, Tit. 1:12; in NT a prophet, a divinely commissioned and inspired person, Mt. 14:5; Lk. 7:16, 39; Jn. 9:17; a prophet in the Christian church, a person gifted for the exposition of divine truth, 1 Cor. 12:28, 29; a prophet, a foreteller of the future, Mt. 1:22, et al. freq.; οἱ προφῆται, the prophetic scriptures of the Old Testament, Lk. 16:29
Greek-English Concordance for προφήτης
| John 7:40 | After hearing these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This man really is the prophet.” (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) |
| John 7:52 | They replied to him, saying, “You too are not from Galilee, are you? Search and you will see that no prophet (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) will arise from Galilee.” |
| John 8:52 | The Jews therefore said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, and so did the prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc), yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ |
| John 8:53 | Surely you are not greater than our father Abraham, are you? He died as did the prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc). Who are you making yourself out to be?” |
| John 9:17 | So they spoke again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since it was your eyes that he opened?” The man replied, “He is a prophet.” (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) |
| John 12:38 | that the word spoken by the prophet (prophētou | προφήτου | gen sg masc) Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” |
| Acts 2:16 | But this is what was spoken of through the prophet (prophētou | προφήτου | gen sg masc) Joel: |
| Acts 2:30 | Therefore being a prophet (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc), and knowing that God promised him with an oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne, |
| Acts 3:18 | But the things God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc), that his Christ would suffer, he has fulfilled in this way. |
| Acts 3:21 | whom heaven must receive until the time of restoration of all things, which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc) long ago. |
| Acts 3:22 | Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet (prophētēn | προφήτην | acc sg masc) from among your brothers, as he raised me. You must obey him in all things whatsoever he speaks to you. |
| Acts 3:23 | And it will be that every soul who does not obey that prophet (prophētou | προφήτου | gen sg masc) will be destroyed from among the people.’ |
| Acts 3:24 | And all the prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc) from Samuel and those who came after him, also announced these days. |
| Acts 3:25 | You are the sons of the prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc) and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ |
| Acts 7:37 | This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up a prophet (prophētēn | προφήτην | acc sg masc) for you from among your brothers, as he raised up me.’ |
| Acts 7:42 | But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc) ‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? |
| Acts 7:48 | Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands; as the prophet (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) says, |
| Acts 7:52 | Which of the prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc) did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers! |
| Acts 8:28 | and was returning, seated in his carriage, and he was reading the prophet (prophētēn | προφήτην | acc sg masc) Isaiah. |
| Acts 8:30 | So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet (prophētēn | προφήτην | acc sg masc) and he said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” |
| Acts 8:34 | And in answer the eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, about whom does the prophet (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) say this, about himself or about someone else?” |
| Acts 10:43 | To him all the prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc) bear witness, that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.” |
| Acts 11:27 | During these days prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc) came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. |
| Acts 13:1 | Now there were in Antioch in the local church prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc) and teachers, both Barnabas and Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. |
| Acts 13:15 | After the reading from the Law and the Prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc), the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, “My brothers, if there is any among you with a word of encouragement for the people, say it.” |
