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[1] the canonical group of books that forms the second of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, comprising Joshua, Judges, I and II Samuel, I and II Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Compare Law of Moses, Hagiographa.
[2] a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
[3] (in the Old Testament) a person chosen to speak for God and to guide the people of Israel: Moses was the greatest of Old Testament prophets. (often initial capital letter ) one of the Major or Minor Prophets. one of a band of ecstatic visionaries claiming divine inspiration and, according to popular belief, possessing magical powers. a person who practices divination.
[4] one of a class of persons in the early church, next in order after the apostles, recognized as inspired to utter special revelations and predictions. 1 Cor. 12:28.
[5] the Prophet, Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
[6] a person regarded as, or claiming to be, an inspired teacher or leader.
[7] a person who foretells or predicts what is to come: a weather prophet; prophets of doom.
[8] a spokesperson of some doctrine, cause, or movement.
[9] the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, which in Jewish tradition is subdivided into the Former Prophets, Joshua, Judges, I-II Samuel, and I-II Kings, and the Latter Prophets, comprising those books which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets and which are divided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets Compare Law of Moses, Hagiographa
[10] a person who supposedly speaks by divine inspiration, esp one through whom a divinity expresses his will Related adjective: vatic
[11] a person who predicts the future a prophet of doom
[12] a spokesman for a movement, doctrine, etc
[13] Christian Science a seer in spiritual matters the vanishing of material sense to give way to the conscious facts of spiritual truth
[14] the principal designation of Mohammed as the founder of Islam
[15] a name for Joseph Smith as founder of the Mormon Church
Words related to Prophets
witch, seer, prognosticator, diviner, medium, sibyl, astrologer, forecaster, reader, wizard, bard, fortuneteller, soothsayer, oracle, augur, auspex, magus, clairvoyant, sorcerer, druid
Origin of Prophets
1150–1200; Middle English prophete < Late Latin prophēta < Greek prophḗtēs, equivalent to pro- pro-2 + -phētēs speaker, derivative of phánai to speak
Words that may be confused with Prophets
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Other words from Prophets
proph·et·hood , noun
proph·et·less , adjective
proph·et·like , adjective
Word origin for Prophets
C13: from Old French prophète, from Latin prophēta, from Greek prophētēs one who declares the divine will, from pro- ² + phanai to speak
Synonyms for Prophets
prognosticator, seer, witch, astrologer, augur, auspex, bard, clairvoyant, diviner, druid, forecaster, fortuneteller, magus, medium, meteorologist, oracle, palmist, predictor, prophesier, reader, sibyl, soothsayer, sorcerer, wizard, evocator, haruspex, horoscopist, ovate, seeress, tea-leaf reader