προφήτης: Difference between revisions

|astxt=[[προφήτης]], -ου, ὁ [< [[πρόφημι]], to speak forth), [in LXX chiefly for נָבִיא;] <br />one who acts as an interpreter or forth-teller of the Divine will (v. Lft., Notes, 83f.; Tr., Syn., §vi), a prophet;<br /><b class="num">1.</b>in cl. (Æsch., Hdt., Plat., al.), of the interpreters of oracles. <br /><b class="num">2.</b>In NT,<br /><b class="num">(a)</b>of the OT prophets: Mt 5:12, Mk 6:15, Lk 4:27, Jo 8:52, Ro 11:3, al.; <br /><b class="num">(b)</b>of prophets in general: Mt 10:41 13:57 21:46, Mk 6:4, Lk 13:33, al.; <br /><b class="num">(c)</b>of John the Baptist: Mt 21:26, Mk 6:15, Lk 1:76; <br /><b class="num">(d)</b>of Christ: Mt 21:11, Jo 6:14, Ac 3:22, 23 7:37 (LXX); <br /><b class="num">(e)</b>of Christian prophets in the apostolic age: Ac 15:32, I Co 12:28, Eph 2:20, al.; <br /><b class="num">(f)</b>by meton., of the writings of prophets: Lk 24:27, Ac 8:28, al.; <br /><b class="num">(g)</b>of a poet: Tit 1:12 (on the use of the term in π. and Inscr., v. Deiss., BS, 235f.; MM, xxii).