prophēteia · prophecy

What it means

prophēteia (προφητεία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “prophecy”.

A message from God spoken by a prophet; also prophesying.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A message from God spoken through his messenger.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• prophecy ×15
• prophecies ×3
• prophesying ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×5
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 1 Timothy×2
• 2 Peter×2
• Revelation×7

• Matthew 13:14

  And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will indeed hear and never understand, and you will indeed see and never perceive.

• Romans 12:6

  And having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, if it is prophecy, let it be according to the proportion of faith;

• 1 Corinthians 12:10

  to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernment of spirits, to another kinds of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues.

• 1 Corinthians 13:2

  And if I have prophecy and know all the mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 13:8

  Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they will be done away with; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away with.

• 1 Corinthians 14:6

  But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you either by revelation or by knowledge or by prophecy or by teaching?

• 1 Corinthians 14:22

  So then, tongues are a sign not for those who believe but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:20

  Do not despise prophecies,

• 1 Timothy 1:18

  This instruction I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in keeping with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,

• 1 Timothy 4:14

  Do not neglect the gift in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the council of elders.

• 2 Peter 1:20

  knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation,

• 2 Peter 1:21

  for prophecy was never brought by human will, but men spoke from God carried along by the Holy Spirit.

• Revelation 1:3

  Happy is the one who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

• Revelation 11:6

  These have the authority to shut the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they want.

• Revelation 19:10

  And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he says to me, “See that you do not! I am a fellow slave of yours and of your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

• Revelation 22:7

  And look, I am coming soon. Happy is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

• Revelation 22:10

  And he says to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.

• Revelation 22:18

  I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;

• Revelation 22:19

  and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written about in this book.