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προφήτης

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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
Gloss: 
prophet, one who speaks inspired utterances; the writings of the OT prophets; see also {4735}
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

Luke 9:19 They replied, “John the Baptist; others say, Elijah; still others that one of the ancient prophets (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) of old has risen.”
Luke 10:24 For I tell you that many prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc) and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”
Luke 11:47 Woe to you! For you build memorials to the prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc), but your fathers killed them.
Luke 11:49 Indeed, for this reason the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets (prophētas | προφήτας | acc pl masc) and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’
Luke 11:50 so that the blood of all the prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc), shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,
Luke 13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there, when you see Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets (prophētas | προφήτας | acc pl masc) in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves cast outside.
Luke 13:33 Nevertheless I must continue on my way today and tomorrow and the next day; because it is not possible for a prophet (prophētēn | προφήτην | acc sg masc) to die outside of Jerusalem.”
Luke 13:34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets (prophētas | προφήτας | acc pl masc) and stones those who have been sent to it! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you did not want it!
Luke 16:16 “The Law and the Prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc) were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone takes vigorous steps to enter it.
Luke 16:29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets (prophētas | προφήτας | acc pl masc); let them listen to them.’
Luke 16:31 He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc), neither will they be persuaded should someone rise from the dead.’”
Luke 18:31 Taking the twelve aside, he said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written by the prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc) regarding the Son of Man will be carried out.
Luke 20:6 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.” (prophētēn | προφήτην | acc sg masc)
Luke 24:19 And he said to them, “What things?” They answered him, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
Luke 24:25 So he said to them, “You foolish people, slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc) have spoken!
Luke 24:27 Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets (prophētōn | προφητῶν | gen pl masc), he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the Scriptures.
Luke 24:44 Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written in the law of Moses and the prophets (prophētais | προφήταις | dat pl masc) and psalms about me must be fulfilled.”
John 1:21 So they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) And he replied, “No.”
John 1:23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) said.”
John 1:25 So they asked him, saying, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc)
John 1:45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one of whom Moses wrote in the law, and of whom the prophets (prophētai | προφῆται | nom pl masc) wrote — Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man from Nazareth.”
John 4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc).
John 4:44 (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) has no honor in his own country).
John 6:14 So when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “This is truly the prophet (prophētēs | προφήτης | nom sg masc) who was to come into the world.”
John 6:45 It stands written in the prophets (prophētais | προφήταις | dat pl masc), ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
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.”

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