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Lexicon :: Strong's G4394 - prophēteia

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προφητεία
Transliteration
prophēteia (Key)
Pronunciation
prof-ay-ti'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From προφήτης (G4396) ("prophecy")
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:781,952

Strong’s Definitions

προφητεία prophēteía, prof-ay-ti'-ah; from G4396 ("prophecy"); prediction (scriptural or other):—prophecy, prophesying.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's G4394 in the following manner: prophecy (16x), prophesying (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's G4394 in the following manner: prophecy (16x), prophesying (3x).

  1. prophecy

    1. a discourse emanating from divine inspiration and declaring the purposes of God, whether by reproving and admonishing the wicked, or comforting the afflicted, or revealing things hidden; esp. by foretelling future events

    2. Used in the NT of the utterance of OT prophets

      1. of the prediction of events relating to Christ's kingdom and its speedy triumph, together with the consolations and admonitions pertaining to it, the spirit of prophecy, the divine mind, to which the prophetic faculty is due

      2. of the endowment and speech of the Christian teachers called prophets

      3. the gifts and utterances of these prophets, esp. of the predictions of the works of which, set apart to teach the gospel, will accomplish for the kingdom of Christ

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
προφητεία prophēteía, prof-ay-ti'-ah; from G4396 ("prophecy"); prediction (scriptural or other):—prophecy, prophesying.
STRONGS G4394:
προφητεία, προφητείας, ἡ (προφητεύω, which see), Hebrew נְבוּאָה, prophecy, i. e. discourse emanating from divine inspiration and declaring the purposes of God, whether by reproving and admonishing the wicked, or comforting the afflicted, or revealing things hidden; especially by foretelling future events. Used in the N. T. — of the utterances of the O. T. prophets: Matthew 13:14; 2 Peter 1:20, 21 (on this passage see γίνομαι, 5 e. α.); — of the prediction of events relating to Christ's kingdom and its speedy triumph, together with the consolations and admonitions pertaining thereto: Revelation 11:6; Revelation 22:19; τό πνεῦμα τῆς προφητείας, the spirit of prophecy, the divine mind, to which the prophetic faculty is due, Revelation 19:10; οἱ λόγοι τῆς προφητείας, Revelation 1:3; Revelation 22:7, 10, 18; — of the endowment and speech of the Christian teachers called προφῆται (see προφήτης, II. 1 f.): Romans 12:6; 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Corinthians 14:6, 22; plural the gifts and utterances of these prophets, 1 Corinthians 13:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:20; — specifically, of the prognostication of those achievements which one set apart to teach the gospel will accomplish for the kingdom of Christ, 1 Timothy 4:14; plural 1 Timothy 1:18 (see προάγω, 2 a. and compare the commentaries). ((The Sept., Josephus); among native Greek writers used only by Lucian, Alex. 40, 60; (to which add inscriptions (see Liddell and Scott, under the word, I.)).)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
13:14
Romans
12:6
1 Corinthians
12:10; 13:2; 13:8; 14:6; 14:22
1 Thessalonians
5:20
1 Timothy
1:18; 4:14
2 Peter
1:20; 1:21
Revelation
1:3; 11:6; 19:10; 22:7; 22:10; 22:18; 22:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4394 matches the Greek προφητεία (prophēteia),
which occurs 19 times in 19 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:14 - and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:6 - And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- 'According to the proportion of faith!'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:10 - and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another divers kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:2 - and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:8 - The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:6 - And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:22 - so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy is not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:20 - prophesyings despise not;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 1:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 1:18 - This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 4:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 4:14 - be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:20 - this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 1:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:21 - for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:3 - Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the time is nigh!

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:6 - These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:10 - and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, 'See -- not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:7 - Lo, I come quickly; happy is he who is keeping the words of the prophecy of this scroll.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:10 - And he saith to me, 'Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:18 - 'For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:19 - and if any one may take away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have been written in this scroll;'
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