noun · feminine
profētias
Strong’sG4398
a prophetess
stem profēti-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
προφῆτις, -ιδος, ἡ fem, of προφήτης,
[in LXX: Ex 15:20, Jg 4:4, IV Ki 22:14, II Ch 34:22, Is 8:3 (נְבִיאָה)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4398 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidprof-ay'-tis
a female foreteller or an inspired woman
Fromfeminine of G4396;
King Jamesprophetess.
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
feminine of προφήτης, especially of the Pythia, LXX+5th c.BC+: metaphorically, π. τῆς ἀληθείας Refs 1st c.BC+
2 prophet's wife, LXX
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | profētias1×προφῆτις | profētiais |
| object accusative | profētian1×προφῆτιν | profētiain |
| direct address vocative | profētiar | profētiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | profētiau | profētiaiu |
| to, for dative | profētia | profētiai |
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
profētia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
profētias“prophetess”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 2:36Kai ate Hannas profētias, thugatras Fanouēl, ek fulau Asēr houtas …There was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel …
profētian“prophetess”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 2:20… tan gunaikan Iezabel, tas legarōntas heautan profētian, kai didaskatō kai planatō toin ēmoin …… woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My …