Prophesy

Word PROPHESY
Character 8
Hyphenation proph e sy
Pronunciations /ˈpɹɒfɪsaɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Prophesy"

What do we mean by prophesy?

To reveal by divine inspiration. intransitive verb

To predict the future with certainty. synonym: foretell. intransitive verb

To prefigure or foreshadow. intransitive verb

To reveal the will or message of God; speak or write as a prophet. intransitive verb

To predict future events; make predictions. intransitive verb

To predict; foretell; foreshow. See prophet.

To speak by divine inspiration; utter or tell as prophet.

To utter predictions; foretell future events.

To interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; preach; exhort.

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. transitive verb

To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure. transitive verb

To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. intransitive verb

To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound. intransitive verb

Predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration verb

Deliver a sermon verb

To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.

To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration).

To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Prophesy

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The word "prophesy" in example sentences

The term prophesy, in this instance, must be restricted to the use of psalmody, because exposition or exhortation in public was not permitted to the women, who were not allowed to speak or even to ask a question in a place of worship. ❋ Michael Russell (1814)

Roth has long been pessimistic about the survival of the novel in a gaudy, short-attention-span culture, but his latest prophesy is one of his bleakest yet, predicting that the form will dwindle to a “cultic” minority enthusiasm within 25 years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Micah prophesy is clearly about someone of the Bethlehem Ephratah clan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Continue here: My Own Worst Enemy cancelled in self-fulfilling title prophesy JimK ❋ Unknown (2008)

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And, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions": 149 where again, the word prophesy is expounded by dream and vision. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some such convulsion as geologists declare has already frequently befallen our earth; and, as they prophesy, is shortly coming again. ❋ Jenny Wren (N/A)

As he bore it patiently, and did not answer, they doubtless supposed they had discovered another reason to think he was an impostor; The word prophesy does not mean only to foretell future events -- although that is the proper meaning of the word; but also to declare anything that is unknown, or anything which cannot be known by natural knowledge, or without revelation. ❋ Unknown (1949)

And, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions": (47) where again, the word prophesy is expounded by dream and vision. ❋ Unknown (1651)

My Own Worst Enemy cancelled in self-fulfilling title prophesy JimK ❋ Unknown (2008)

9 -- "And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy" -- a text in which it is quite indifferent whether we take the word prophesy in the sense of revealing, or teaching. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Bradford (and I think he author of Matthew too) is claiming that the prophesy was about the place, when it was actually about the family. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Certainly a prophet would say their prophesy is the word of God, and no doubt Paul believed the Torah was the word of God but who established all the books of the Bible are all the word of God? ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

Now the prophetic light is not in the prophet's intellect by way of an abiding form, else a prophet would always be able to prophesy, which is clearly false. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

And the book proved as his friends seemed to prophesy, that is, of great and general use, whether we respect the Art or the Author. ❋ Walton, Izaak (1898)

The result will be ---- But to predict a result is to prophesy, and to prophesy is to know. ❋ Various (1876)

By opening the eyes of the blind, unstopping the deaf ears, raising the dead, etc., as foretold in prophesy. ❋ Unknown (1865)

Jeffrey Feltman said Assad is pegging his ruling Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, against other sects and implementing his "own prophesy, which is moving Syria into more chaos and a civil war." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Spirit upon all flesh that their sons and their daughters should prophesy, that is, foretel things to come. ❋ Unknown (1721)

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