Definition

to foretell events, divine, speak under inspiration, exercise the prophetic office

Etymology

from G4396 (προφήτης);

Word family

• προφήτης prophḗtēs

How the KJV renders it

• prophesy

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.