προφητεία
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προφήτης (prophḗtēs, “speaker of a god”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pro.pʰɛː.těː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pro.pʰe̝ˈti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pro.ɸiˈti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pro.fiˈti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pro.fiˈti.a/
Noun
προφητείᾱ • (prophēteíā) f (genitive προφητείᾱς); first declension
- the interpretation of the will of the gods: prophecy
- (New Testament) preaching and teaching under the influence of the Holy Spirit
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ προφητείᾱ hē prophēteíā |
τὼ προφητείᾱ tṑ prophēteíā |
αἱ προφητεῖαι hai prophēteîai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς προφητείᾱς tês prophēteíās |
τοῖν προφητείαιν toîn prophēteíain |
τῶν προφητειῶν tôn prophēteiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ προφητείᾳ têi prophēteíāi |
τοῖν προφητείαιν toîn prophēteíain |
ταῖς προφητείαις taîs prophēteíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν προφητείᾱν tḕn prophēteíān |
τὼ προφητείᾱ tṑ prophēteíā |
τᾱ̀ς προφητείᾱς tā̀s prophēteíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | προφητείᾱ prophēteíā |
προφητείᾱ prophēteíā |
προφητεῖαι prophēteîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Gothic: 𐍀𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍆𐌴𐍄𐌾𐌰 (praufētja)
- Greek: προφητεία (profiteía)
- → Latin: prophētīa (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “προφητεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “προφητεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- προφητεία 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
- G4394 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek προφητείᾱ (prophēteíā).
Noun
προφητεία • (profiteía) f (plural προφητείες)
Declension
Declension of προφητεία
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | προφητεία • | προφητείες • |
| genitive | προφητείας • | προφητειών • |
| accusative | προφητεία • | προφητείες • |
| vocative | προφητεία • | προφητείες • |
Related terms
- see: προφήτης m (profítis, “prophet”)
Further reading
Προφήτης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
