G4398 – prophetis – προφῆτις – prophetess
- Strong’s ID:
- G4398
- Greek Word:
- προφῆτις
- Transliteration:
- prophetis
- Pronunciation:
- prof-ay’-tis
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 2
- Search:
- Find “prophetis” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
feminine of G4396; a female foreteller or an inspired woman:—prophetess.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a prophetess
2) a woman to whom future events or things hidden from others are at times revealed, either by inspiration or by dreams and visions
3) a female who declares or interprets oracles
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.