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prophētēs G4396

προφήτης (prophētēs) means “prophet” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

προφήτης Greek · G4396 143 tagged occurrences in 138 verses

Pronunciation guide: prof-ay'-tace Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G4396

προφήτης · prophētēs · prophet

προφήτης, -ου, ὁ [πρόφημι, to speak forth), [in LXX chiefly for נָבִיא ;] one who acts as an interpreter or forth-teller of the Divine will (see Lft., Notes, 83f.; Tr., Syn., §vi), a prophet; 1. in cl. (Æsch., Hdt., Plat., al.), of the interpreters of oracles. 2. In NT, (a) of the OT prophets: Mat.5:12, Mrk.6:15, Luk.4:27, Jhn.8:52, Rom.11:3, al.; (b) of prophets in general: Mat.10:41 13:57 21:46, Mrk.6:4, Luk.13:33, al.; (with) of John the Baptist: Mat.21:26, Mrk.6:15, Luk.1:76; (d) of Christ: Mat.21:11, Jhn.6:14, Act.3:22, 23 7:37" (LXX) ; (e) of Christian prophets in the apostolic age: Act.15:32, 1Co.12:28, Eph.2:20, al.; (f) by meton., of the writings of prophets: Luk.24:27, Act.8:28, al.; (g) of a poet: Tit.1:12 (on the use of the term in π. and Inscr., see Deiss., BS, 235f.; MM, xxii). (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

a prophet, poet; a person gifted at expositing divine truth.

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How translators render G4396

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
prophets 71
prophet 35
a prophet 23
of prophets 2
than a prophet 2
a prophets 1
he is a prophet 1
prophets foretold 1
prophets of old 1
prophets were proclaimed 1
some prophets 1
the prophet 1
the prophets 1
to be prophets 1
to him 1
to prophets 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the prophets 39
the prophet 28
prophets 25
a prophet 21
of the prophets 13
prophet 6
of the prophet 4
that prophet 3
of 2
of the 2
a prophets 1
by the prophet 1
in the prophets 1
of a prophet 1
of prophets 1
that a prophet 1
the 1
to the prophets 1
unto the prophets 1

Verses containing G4396

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  1. Luke 9:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that a prophet of old has arisen.”

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  2. Luke 10:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”

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  3. Luke 11:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

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  4. Luke 11:49 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’

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  5. Luke 11:50 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,

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  6. Luke 13:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.

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  7. Luke 13:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

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  8. Luke 13:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

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  9. Luke 16:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

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  10. Luke 16:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’

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  11. Luke 16:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”

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  12. Luke 18:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

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  13. Luke 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

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  14. Luke 24:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.

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  15. Luke 24:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

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  16. Luke 24:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

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  17. Luke 24:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”

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  18. John 1:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”

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  19. John 1:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”

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  20. John 1:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

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  21. John 1:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

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  22. John 4:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

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  23. John 4:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

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  24. John 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

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  25. John 6:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

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  26. John 7:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”

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  27. John 7:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”

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  28. John 8:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.

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  29. John 8:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”

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  30. John 9:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

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  31. John 12:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

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  32. Acts 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

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  33. Acts 2:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

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  34. Acts 3:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

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  35. Acts 3:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.

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  36. Acts 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.

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  37. Acts 3:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’

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  38. Acts 3:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.

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  39. Acts 3:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

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  40. Acts 7:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

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  41. Acts 7:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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  42. Acts 7:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

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  43. Acts 7:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

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  44. Acts 8:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.

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  45. Acts 8:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.

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  46. Acts 8:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Tell me,” said the eunuch, “who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”

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  47. Acts 10:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”

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  48. Acts 11:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

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  49. Acts 13:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.

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  50. Acts 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent word to them: “Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, please speak.”

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