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προφητῶν (propheton)

προφητῶν is an Ancient Greek form of προφήτης, meaning “prophet, spokesman”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of προφητάζω, “(garbled form; cf. προφητεύω)”.

Found 146 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 9: … α μὲν καλοῦσι τὸ θυόμενον ἱερεῖον, ὅταν ὅσιος ἀποδειχθῇ. πέντε δʼ εἰσὶν ὅσιοι διὰ βίου, καὶ τὰ πολλὰ μετὰ τῶν προφητῶν δρῶσιν οὗτοι καὶ συνιερουργοῦσιν, ἅτε γεγονέναι δοκοῦντες ἀπὸ Δευκαλίωνος. ὁ δὲ βύσιος μήν, ὡς μὲν οἱ πολλοὶ …

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 4.26.14: … έσσαρα, Παραλειπομένων δύο, Ψαλμῶν Δαυίδ, Σολομῶνος Παροιμίαι ἡ καὶ Σοφία, Ἐκκλησιαστής, Ἆισμα Ἀισμάτων, Ἰώβ, Προφητῶν Ἡσαΐου Ἱερεμίου τῶν δώδεκα ἐν μονοβίβλῳ Δανιήλ, Ἰεζεκιήλ, Ἔσδρας· ἐξ ὧν καὶ τὰς ἐκλογὰς ἐποιησάμην, εἰς ἓξ βι …

All forms of προφήτης (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.