Strong's #4394: propheteia (pronounced prof-ay-ti'-ah)
from 4396 ("prophecy"); prediction (scriptural or other):--prophecy, prophesying.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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prophēteia
1) prophecy
1a) a discourse emanating from divine inspiration and declaring the purposes of God, whether by reproving and admonishing the wicked, or comforting the afflicted, or revealing things hidden; especially by foretelling future events
1b) Used in the NT of the utterance of OT prophets
1b1) of the prediction of events relating to Christ' s kingdom and its speedy triumph, together with the consolations and admonitions pertaining to it, the spirit of prophecy, the divine mind, to which the prophetic faculty is due
1b2) of the endowment and speech of the Christian teachers called prophets
1b3) the gifts and utterances of these prophets, especially of the predictions of the works of which, set apart to teach the gospel, will accomplish for the kingdom of Christ
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G4396 ("prophecy" )
Citing in TDNT: 6:781, 952
Usage:
This word is used 19 times:
Matthew 13:14: "them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear,"
Romans 12:6: "that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;"
1 Corinthians 12:10: "of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits;"
1 Corinthians 13:2: "And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,"
1 Corinthians 13:8: "faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease;"
1 Corinthians 14:6: "knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?"
1 Corinthians 14:22: "but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe."
1 Thessalonians 5:20: "Despise not prophesyings."
1 Timothy 1:18: "Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that"
1 Timothy 4:14: "was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands"
2 Peter 1:20: "first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private"
2 Peter 1:21: "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but"
Revelation 1:3: "they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein:"
Revelation 11:6: "it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have"
Revelation 19:10: "of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."
Revelation 22:7: "the saying of the prophecy of this book."
Revelation 22:10: "the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the"
Revelation 22:18: "the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man"
Revelation 22:19: "words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part"
