adjective
profētikos
Strong’sG4397
prophetic
stem profētik-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† προφητικός, -ά, -όν
(< προφήτης),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4397 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidprof-ay-tik-os'
pertaining to a foreteller ("prophetic")
Fromfrom G4396;
King Jamesof prophecy, of the prophets.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
oracular, prophetic, ἀνήρ Refs 1st c.AD+; λόγοςNT+1st c.AD+
2 εἰκὼν χαλκῆ π. in the official robes of a προφήτης, Refs; so ἠμφιεσμένος π. σχήματι, στολίσας σεαυτὸν π. σχήματι, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | profētikos | profētikas | profētikem | profētikois | profētikais | profētikeim |
| object accusative | profētikon1×προφητικὸν | profētikan | profētikoin | profētikain | ||
| direct address vocative | profētikor | profētikar | profētikoir | profētikair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | profētikou | profētikau | profētikeu | profētikoiu | profētikaiu | profētikeiu |
| to, for dative | profētiko | profētika | profētike | profētikoi | profētikai | profētikei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
profētik is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
profētikon“prophetic”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Peter 1:19“prophetic”kai echanō bebaioteron ton profētikon logon, ho kalōs poiavō prosecharōntois hōs …We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a …