G4398: προφῆτις (prophētis)

G4398 προφῆτις (prophētis)

Greek

Quick Definition

προφῆτις, ιδος, ἡ n.f. a prophetess

Strong's Definition

feminine of 4396; a female foreteller or an inspired woman

KJV Usage: prophetess

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

προφῆτις (G4398)

noun, f. | -ιδος | φημί

53.80 · Religious Activities · Roles and Functions

prophetess, inspired preacher a woman who proclaims inspired utterances on behalf of God

LUK 2:36 · REV 2:20

¹ Even in the NT, the role of the προφήτης had become recognized as a special function, and therefore it should not be equated with preaching (33.256-33.259) in general.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

προφῆτις, -.dos, 7, (προφήτης), Sept. for 782), a prophetess (Vulg., Tertull. prophetissa, prophetis), a woman to whom future events or things hidden from others are at times revealed, either by inspiration or by dreams and visions: Lk. ii. 36; Rev. ii. 20. In Grk. usage, a female who declares or interprets oracles (Eur., Plat., Plut.) : ἡ προφῆτις τῆς ἀληθείας ἱστορία, Diod. 1, 2.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

προφῆτις prophētis 2x

a prophetess, a divinely gifted female teacher, Lk. 2:36; Rev. 2:20*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

προφῆτις, -ιδος, ἡ fem, of προφήτης,

[in LXX: Ex 15:20, Jg 4:4, IV Ki 22:14, II Ch 34:22, Is 8:3 (נְבִיאָה)*;]

a prophetess: Lk 2:36, Re 2:20.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

προφῆτις times we may add τό, 1285 (a.p. 128) προφήτη(ς) "Ισιδο(ς) : μεγάλου μεγάλου, and 720. 11. 4883 (1,4.19.} mpopytov.[....] Συκατοίμεω[ς, both passages cited by Deissmann AS p. 235f., where also pointed attention is directed to the important fact that ‘‘in Egypt the prophets were priests.” See also Otto Przester i. p. 80 ff., and in further illustration of the word in Hellenistic religious literature cf. Vett. Val. p- 631° ὃ γεννώμενος ἔσται μακάριος εὐσεβής, προφήτης μεγάλου θεοῦ καὶ ἐπακουσθήσεται ὡς θεός, and p. 67% ἐὰν δὲ ὁ τοῦ Διὸς συμπαρῇ αὐτῇ, ἔσται προφήτης εὐτυχὴς πλούσιος ἔνδοξος, πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν κυριεύσει. The name οἵ προφήτης is apparently given to a piece of land in P Fay 11178 (A.D. 95-6) τὼν (1 τὸν) στίχον τὸν (1. τῶν) φυτὸν (2. φυτῶν) τῶν ἐν τῷ προφήτῃ πότισον, “ἐγαίου the row of trees at ‘the prophet’ ᾿ (Edd.).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

προφῆτις (prophētis) — prophetess. προφῆτις, ιδος, feminine of προφήτης, especially of the Pythia, [LXX+5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, π. τῆς ἀληθείας [Refs 1st c.BC+]

2. prophet's wife, [LXX]