προφήτης, -ου, ὁ [πρόφημι, to speak forth), [in LXX chiefly for נָבִיא ;] one who acts as an interpreter or forth-teller of the Divine will (see Lft., Notes, 83f.; Tr., Syn., §vi), a prophet; 1. in cl. (Æsch., Hdt., Plat., al.), of the interpreters of oracles. 2. In NT, (a) of the OT prophets: Mat.5:12, Mrk.6:15, Luk.4:27, Jhn.8:52, Rom.11:3, al.; (b) of prophets in general: Mat.10:41 13:57 21:46, Mrk.6:4, Luk.13:33, al.; (with) of John the Baptist: Mat.21:26, Mrk.6:15, Luk.1:76; (d) of Christ: Mat.21:11, Jhn.6:14, Act.3:22, 23 7:37" (LXX) ; (e) of Christian prophets in the apostolic age: Act.15:32, 1Co.12:28, Eph.2:20, al.; (f) by meton., of the writings of prophets: Luk.24:27, Act.8:28, al.; (g) of a poet: Tit.1:12 (on the use of the term in π. and Inscr., see Deiss., BS, 235f.; MM, xxii). (AS)
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prophētēs · prophet · Greek
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Matthew 1:22 · προφήτουAll this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:Matthew 2:5 · προφήτου·“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:Matthew 2:15 · προφήτουwhere he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”Matthew 2:17 · προφήτουThen what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:Matthew 2:23 · προφητῶνand he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”Matthew 3:3 · προφήτουThis is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”Matthew 4:14 · προφήτουto fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:Matthew 5:12 · προφήταςRejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.Matthew 5:17 · προφήτας·Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.Matthew 7:12 · προφῆται.¶In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.Matthew 8:17 · προφήτουThis was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”Matthew 10:41 · προφήτην · προφήτου · προφήτουWhoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.Matthew 11:9 · προφήτου.What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.Matthew 11:13 · προφῆταιFor all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.Matthew 12:17 · προφήτουThis was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:Matthew 12:39 · προφήτου.Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.Matthew 13:17 · προφῆταιFor truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.Matthew 13:35 · προφήτουSo was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”Matthew 13:57 · προφήτηςAnd they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”Matthew 14:5 · προφήτηνAlthough Herod wanted to kill John, he was afraid of the people, because they regarded John as a prophet.Matthew 16:14 · προφητῶν.They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”Matthew 21:4 · προφήτουThis took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:Matthew 21:11 · προφήτηςThe crowds replied, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”Matthew 21:26 · προφήτηνBut if we say, ‘From men,’ we are afraid of the people, for they all regard John as a prophet.”Matthew 21:46 · προφήτηνAlthough they wanted to arrest Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because the people regarded Him as a prophet.Matthew 22:40 · προφῆται.¶All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”Matthew 23:29 · προφητῶνWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.Matthew 23:30 · προφητῶν,And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’Matthew 23:31 · προφήτας·So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.Matthew 23:34 · προφήταςBecause of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.Matthew 23:37 · προφήταςO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!Matthew 24:15 · προφήτουSo when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),Matthew 26:56 · προφητῶν.¶But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.Matthew 27:9 · προφήτουThen what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on Him by the people of Israel,Mark 1:2 · προφήτῃ·As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.”Mark 6:4 · προφήτηςThen Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”Mark 6:15 · προφήτης · προφητῶν.Others were saying, “He is Elijah,” and still others, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”Mark 8:28 · προφητῶν.They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”Mark 11:32 · προφήτηςBut if we say, ‘From men’...” they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John truly was a prophet.Luke 1:70 · προφητῶνas He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past,Luke 1:76 · προφήτηςAnd you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,Luke 3:4 · προφήτουas it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.Luke 4:17 · προφήτουthe scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:Luke 4:24 · προφήτηςThen He added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.Luke 4:27 · προφήτου·And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”Luke 6:23 · προφήταιςRejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.Luke 7:16 · προφήτηςA sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”Luke 7:26 · προφήτην; · προφήτου.What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.Luke 7:39 · προφήτης,When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”Luke 9:8 · προφήτηςothers that Elijah had appeared, and still others that a prophet of old had arisen.Luke 9:19 · προφήτηςThey replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that a prophet of old has arisen.”Luke 10:24 · προφῆταιFor I tell you that many prophets 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 · προφητῶν,Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.Luke 11:49 · προφήταςBecause of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’Luke 11:50 · προφητῶνAs a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,Luke 13:28 · προφήταςThere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.Luke 13:33 · προφήτηνNevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.Luke 13:34 · προφήταςO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!Luke 16:16 · προφῆταιThe Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.Luke 16:29 · προφήτας·But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’Luke 16:31 · προφητῶνThen Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”Luke 18:31 · προφητῶνThen Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.Luke 20:6 · προφήτηνBut if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”Luke 24:19 · προφήτης“What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.Luke 24:25 · προφῆται·Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!Luke 24:27 · προφητῶνAnd beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.Luke 24:44 · προφήταιςJesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”John 1:21 · προφήτης“Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”John 1:23 · προφήτης.John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”John 1:25 · προφήτης;asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”John 1:45 · προφῆται,Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”John 4:19 · προφήτης“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.John 4:44 · προφήτηςNow He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.John 6:14 · προφήτηςWhen the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”John 6:45 · προφήταις·It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—John 7:40 · προφήτης.On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”John 7:52 · προφήτης“Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”John 8:52 · προφῆται,“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.John 8:53 · προφῆταιAre You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”John 9:17 · προφήτηςSo once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.John 12:38 · προφήτουThis was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”Acts 2:16 · προφήτουNo, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:Acts 2:30 · προφήτηςBut he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.Acts 3:18 · προφητῶνBut in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.Acts 3:21 · προφητῶν.¶Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.Acts 3:22 · προφήτηνFor Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.Acts 3:23 · προφήτουEveryone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’Acts 3:24 · προφῆταιIndeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.Acts 3:25 · προφητῶνAnd you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’Acts 7:37 · προφήτηνThis is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’Acts 7:42 · προφητῶν·But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Acts 7:48 · προφήτηςHowever, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:Acts 7:52 · προφητῶνWhich of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—Acts 8:28 · προφήτηνand on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.Acts 8:30 · προφήτηνSo Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.Acts 8:34 · προφήτης“Tell me,” said the eunuch, “who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”Acts 10:43 · προφῆταιAll the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”Acts 11:27 · προφῆταιIn those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.Acts 13:1 · προφῆταιNow in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.Acts 13:15 · προφητῶνAfter the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent word to them: “Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, please speak.”Acts 13:20 · προφήτου·All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.Acts 13:27 · προφητῶνThe people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.Acts 13:40 · προφήταις·Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:Acts 15:15 · προφητῶνThe words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:Acts 15:32 · προφῆταιJudas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the brothers.Acts 21:10 · προφήτηςAfter we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.Acts 24:14 · προφήταιςI do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,Acts 26:22 · προφῆταιBut I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:Acts 26:27 · προφήταις;King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”Acts 28:23 · προφητῶνSo they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.Acts 28:25 · προφήτουThey disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:Romans 1:2 · προφητῶνthe gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,Romans 3:21 · προφητῶν,But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.Romans 11:3 · προφήτας“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?1 Corinthians 12:28 · προφήτας,And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.1 Corinthians 12:29 · προφῆται;Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?1 Corinthians 14:29 · προφῆταιTwo or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.1 Corinthians 14:32 · προφητῶν · προφήταιςThe spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.1 Corinthians 14:37 · προφήτηςIf anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is the Lord’s command.Ephesians 2:20 · προφητῶν,built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.Ephesians 3:5 · προφήταιςwhich was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets.Ephesians 4:11 · προφήτας,And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,1 Thessalonians 2:15 · προφήταςwho killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,Titus 1:12 · προφήτης·As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”Hebrews 1:1 · προφήταιςOn many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.Hebrews 11:32 · προφητῶν·And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,James 5:10 · προφήταςBrothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.1 Peter 1:10 · προφῆταιConcerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,2 Peter 2:16 · προφήτουBut he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.2 Peter 3:2 · προφητῶνby recalling what was foretold by the holy prophets and commanded by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.Revelation 10:7 · προφήτας.¶But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he begins to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as He proclaimed to His servants the prophets.”Revelation 11:10 · προφῆταιAnd those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.Revelation 11:18 · προφήταιςThe nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”Revelation 16:6 · προφητῶνFor they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”Revelation 18:20 · προφῆται,Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.Revelation 18:24 · προφητῶνAnd there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.Revelation 22:6 · προφητῶνThen the angel said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take place.”Revelation 22:9 · προφητῶνBut he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”