Quick Definition
a prophetess
Strong's Definition
a female foreteller or an inspired woman
Derivation: feminine of G4396 (προφήτης);
KJV Usage: prophetess
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
προφῆτις, προφητιδος, ἡ (προφήτης), the Sept. for πΐαΔιΰΘδ, a prophetess (Vulg., Tertullianprophetissa, prophetis), a woman to whom future events or things hidden from others are at times revealed, either by inspiration or by dreams and visions: Luk_2:36; Rev_2:20. In Greek usage, a female who declares or interprets oracles (Euripides, Plato, Plutarch): ἡ προφῆτις τῆς ἀληθείας ἱστορία, Diodorus 1, 2.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
προφῆτις prophētis 2x
a prophetess, a divinely gifted female teacher, Luk_2:36 ; Rev_2:20
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
προφῆτις , -ιδος , ἡ ,
fem, of προφήτης ,
[in LXX : Exo_15:20 , Jdg_4:4 , 2Ki_22:14 , 2Ch_34:22 , Isa_8:3 ( H5031 ) * ;]
a prophetess: Luk_2:36 , Rev_2:20 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
προφῆτις [page 556]
a prophetess ( Luk_2:36 , Rev_2:20 ). In Magn 122 d .3 (probably time of Diocletian) this word is conjecturally restored by the editor ἐξ Εὐαγρίο [υ ] Βαρίλλας προ (φήτιδος ?) Τραλλ (ιανοῦ ) : see Thieme p. 19 f. The proper name Προφήτιλλα is found in a sepulchral inscr. from Hierapolis, C. and B . i. p. 118, No. 27 ( c . A.D. 200). Ramsay thinks that the name may be Christian, and that, if so, it was bestowed on this woman at a time when women-prophets were a feature of the Christianity of Anatolia, i.e. towards the close of ii/A.D.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
προφῆτις προφῆτις, ιδος, [Etym: fem. of προφήτης] of the Pythia, Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
προφῆτις, -ιδος, ἡ fem, of προφήτης,
[in LXX: Exo.15:20, Jdg.4:4, 4Ki.22:14, 2Ch.34:22, Isa.8:3 (נְבִיאָה) * ;]
a prophetess: Luk.2:36, Rev.2:20.†
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