Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /proɸitía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /profitía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pɾofitía/

Noun

προφητείᾱ • ‎(prophēteíā) f ‎(genitive προφητείας); first declension

1. the interpretation of the will of the gods: prophecy
2. (New Testament): preaching and teaching under the influence of the Holy Spirit

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: prophētīa (see there for further descendants)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek προφητεία ‎(prophēteía)

Noun

προφητεία • ‎(profiteía) f ‎(plural προφητείες)

1. prophecy, prediction

Declension

Related terms

• see: προφήτης m ‎(profítis, “prophet”)

External links

• Προφήτης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el