Strong's #4396: prophetes (pronounced prof-ay'-tace)
from a compound of 4253 and 5346; a foreteller ("prophet"); by analogy, an inspired speaker; by extension, a poet:--prophet.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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prophētēs
1) in Greek writings, an interpreter of oracles or of other hidden things
2) one who, moved by the Spirit of God and hence his organ or spokesman, solemnly declares to men what he has received by inspiration, especially concerning future events, and in particular such as relate to the cause and kingdom of God and to human salvation
2a) the OT prophets, having foretold the kingdom, deeds and death, of Jesus the Messiah.
2b) of John the Baptist, the herald of Jesus the Messiah
2c) of the illustrious prophet, the Jews expected before the advent of the Messiah
2d) the Messiah
2e) of men filled with the Spirit of God, who by God' s authority and command in words of weight pleads the cause of God and urges salvation of men
2f) of prophets that appeared in the apostolic age among Christians
2f1) they are associated with the apostles
2f2) they discerned and did what is best for the Christian cause, foretelling certain future events. (Acts 11:27)
2f3) in the religious assemblies of the Christians, they were moved by the Holy Spirit to speak, having power to instruct, comfort, encourage, rebuke, convict, and stimulate, their hearers
3) a poet (because poets were believed to sing under divine inspiration)
3a) of Epimenides (Titus 1:12)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from a compound of G4253 and G5346
Citing in TDNT: 6:781, 952
Usage:
This word is used 150 times:
Luke 4:24: "I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own"
Luke 4:27: "in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed,"
Luke 6:23: "did their fathers unto the prophets."
Luke 7:16: "God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us;"
Luke 7:26: "what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and"
Luke 7:26: "unto you, and much more than a prophet."
Luke 7:28: "there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but"
Luke 7:39: "This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and"
Luke 9:8: "one of the old prophets was risen again."
Luke 9:19: "one of the old prophets is risen again."
Luke 10:24: "you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see"
Luke 11:29: "sign of Jonah the prophet."
Luke 11:47: "the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed"
Luke 11:49: "wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles,"
Luke 11:50: "blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world,"
Luke 13:28: "and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God,"
Luke 13:33: "day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem."
Luke 13:34: "Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto"
Luke 16:16: "law and the prophets were until John: since that time"
Luke 16:29: "Moses and the prophets; let them hear them."
Luke 16:31: "Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though"
Luke 18:31: "that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished."
Luke 20:6: "persuaded that John was a prophet."
Luke 24:19: "which was a prophet mighty in deed and"
Luke 24:25: "all that the prophets have spoken:"
Luke 24:27: "and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all"
Luke 24:44: "law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me."
John 1:21: "not. Art thou that Prophet? And he answered, No."
John 1:23: "as said the prophet Isaiah."
John 1:25: "nor Elijah, neither that prophet?"
John 1:45: "law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth,"
John 4:19: "that thou art a prophet."
John 4:44: "himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in"
John 6:14: "This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world."
John 6:45: "written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught"
John 7:40: "this is the Prophet."
John 7:52: "Galilee ariseth no prophet."
John 8:52: "is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If"
John 8:53: "is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou"
John 9:17: "He said, He is a prophet."
John 12:38: "saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord,"
Acts 2:16: "that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;"
Acts 2:30: "Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn"
Acts 3:18: "the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled."
Acts 3:21: "of all his holy prophets since the world began."
Acts 3:22: "unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up"
Acts 3:23: "will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the"
Acts 3:24: "and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after,"
Acts 3:25: "are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which"
Acts 7:37: "unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up"
