προφήτης

• προφάτας (prophátas) — Doric, Boeotian

From προ- (pro-, “before”) +‎ φημί (phēmí, “I say”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”, masculine agent-noun suffix).

προφήτης • (prophḗtēs) m (genitive προφήτου); first declension

1. one who speaks for and interprets the will of a god: prophet, seer
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 19:

     Διὸς προφήτης δ’ ἐστὶ Λοξίας πατρός

     Diòs prophḗtēs d’ estì Loxías patrós

     But Loxias is the spokesman of Zeus, his father.

2. one of the keepers of the oracle at Branchidae
3. priest at an Egyptian temple
4. one who interprets the ravings of a μάντις (mántis, “oracle”)
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 72a:

     ὅθεν δὴ καὶ τὸ τῶν προφητῶν γένος ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐνθέοις μαντείαις κριτὰς ἐπικαθιστάναι νόμος

     hóthen dḕ kaì tò tôn prophētôn génos epì taîs enthéois manteíais kritàs epikathistánai nómos

     Wherefore also it is customary to set the tribe of prophets to pass judgement upon these inspired divinations.

5. interpreter, proclaimer
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 211:

     ἐπεὶ σὺ φέγγος, Τειρεσία, τόδ’ οὐχ ὁρᾷς, ἐγὼ προφήτης σοι λόγων γενήσομαι

     epeì sù phéngos, Teiresía, tód’ oukh horâis, egṑ prophḗtēs soi lógōn genḗsomai

     Since you do not see this light, Teiresias, I will be your interpreter.

6. (Christianity) prophet
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 14:32:

     καὶ πνεύματα προφητῶν προφήταις ὑποτάσσεται

     kaì pneúmata prophētôn prophḗtais hupotássetai

     The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

7. herbalist
   • Ps.-Dsc. 1.10

• προφήτωρ (prophḗtōr)

• → Coptic: ⲡⲣⲟⲫⲏⲧⲏⲥ (prophētēs)
• → Gothic: 𐍀𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍆𐌴𐍄𐌴𐍃 (praufētēs)
• Greek: προφήτης (profítis)
• → Latin: prophēta (see there for further descendants)

• “προφήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “προφήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• προφήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4396 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • diviner idem, page 244.
  • exponent idem, page 295.
  • interpreter idem, page 452.
  • prophet idem, page 653.

From Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs).

προφήτης • (profítis) m (plural προφήτες)

1. prophet

• προφητεία f (profiteía, “prophecy”)
• προφητεύω (profitévo, “to predict”)
• προφητικός (profitikós, “prophetic”)
• ψευδοπροφήτης (psevdoprofítis)

• προφήτης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el