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προφῆτις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προφῆτις προφῆτιδος

Structure: προφητιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of profh/ths

Sense

  1. prophet (female)

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Λαβοῦσα δὲ Μαριάμ, ἡ προφῆτισ, ἡ ἀδελφὴ Ἀαρών, τὸ τύμπανον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτῆσ, καὶ ἐξήλθοσαν πᾶσαι αἱ γυναῖκεσ ὀπίσω αὐτῆσ μετὰ τυμπάνων καὶ χορῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 15:20)
  • καὶ Δεββώρα γυνὴ προφῆτισ γυνὴ Λαφιδώθ, αὕτη ἔκρινε τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 4:4)
  • κυρεῖ δ’ ἅμ’ ἱππεύοντοσ ἡλίου κύκλῳ προφῆτισ ἐσβαίνουσα μαντεῖον θεοῦ· (Euripides, Ion, episode 4:1)
  • Φοίβου προφῆτισ, μητέρ’ ὣσ νομίζομεν. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:20)
  • τρίποδα γὰρ χρηστήριον λιποῦσα θριγκοῦ τοῦδ’ ὑπερβάλλω πόδα Φοίβου προφῆτισ, τρίποδοσ ἀρχαῖον νόμον σῴζουσα, πασῶν Δελφίδων ἐξαίρετοσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics 2:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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