“a foreteller ("prophet"); by analogy, an inspired speaker; by extension, a poet”
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a foreteller ("prophet"); by analogy, an inspired speaker; by extension, a poet
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
pr. a spokesman for another; spc. a spokesman or interpreter for a deity; a prophet, seer, Tit. 1:12; in NT a prophet, a divinely commissioned and inspired person, Mt. 14:5; Lk. 7:16, 39; Jn. 9:17; a prophet in the Christian church, a person gifted for the exposition of divine truth, 1 Cor. 12:28, 29; a prophet, a foreteller of the future, Mt. 1:22, et al. freq.; οἱ προφῆται, the prophetic scriptures of the Old Testament, Lk. 16:29
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“Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,”