προφήτ-ης, ου,
Doric dialect and
Boeotian dialect προφάτας [ᾱ], α, [
Refs 6th c.BC+] (πρό, φημί):— properly
one who speaks for a god and interprets his will to man, Διὸς π.
interpreter, expounder of the will of Zeus, of Tiresias, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; Βάκχου π., perhaps of Orpheus, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; [Διονύσου] π., of the Bacchae, [
Refs]; Νηρέως π., of Glaucus, [
Refs]; especially of the Delphic Apollo, Διὸς π. ἐστὶ Λοξίας πατρός [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the
minister and
interpreter at Delphi, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; at the Ptoön,[
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; compare προφῆτις.
2 title of official
keepers of the oracle at Branchidae, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; elsewhere, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
2.b in Egyptian temples,
member of the highest order of the clergy, priest, π. θεῶν Εὐεργετῶν [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
3 interpreter, expounder of the utterances of the μάντις (which see), [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
4 possessor of oracular powers, of Amphiaraus, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; of Pseudo-Bacis, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Epimenides, [
NT]
5 generally,
interpreter, declarer, ἐγὼ π. σοι λόγων γενήσομαι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἀτόμων, of the Epicureans, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τῶν Πύρρωνος λόγων, of Timon, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+];
spokesman, [
LXX]
5.b metaphorically,
proclaimer, harbinger, κώμου προφάτας, of the wine-bowl, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II herald at the games, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III in LXX,
revealer of God's will, prophet, [
LXX]
III.2 in
NT, inspired preacher and teacher, organ of special revelations from God, [
NT]; and (as comprised in this),
III.2.b foreteller, prophet of future events, [
NT]
III.3 herbalist, Ps.-[
Refs 1st c.AD+];
quack doctor, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
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