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|mdlsjtxt=[[πρόφημι]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> one who speaks for a God and interprets his [[will]] to man, a [[prophet]]; so Teiresias is πρ. [[Διός]], Jove's [[interpreter]], Pind.; and of [[Apollo]], Διὸς [[προφήτης]] ἐστὶ [[Λοξίας]] πατρός Aesch.; [[while]] the [[Pythia]], in [[turn]], became the [[προφῆτις]] of [[Apollo]], Hdt.; so Poets are called οἱ τῶν Μουσῶν προφῆται interpreters of the Muses, Plat.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[generally]], an [[interpreter]], declarer, ἐγὼ πρ. σοι λόγων [[γενήσομαι]] Eur.; so, the [[bowl]] is called κώμου προφάτης, Pind.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> in NTest.,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> one who possesses the [[gift]] of [[προφητεία]], an [[inspired]] preacher and [[teacher]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[revealer]] of God's [[counsel]] for the [[future]], a [[prophet]] (in the [[modern]] [[sense]] of the [[word]]), a predicter of [[future]] events.

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