Definitions for Prophet

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Prophet proph·et

Spelling: [prof-it]

IPA: /ˈprɒf ɪt/

Prophet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in Prophet (ehopprt).

Definitions for Prophet

noun

1. a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
2. a person chosen to speak for God and to guide the people of Israel: (often initial capital letter) one of the Major or Minor Prophets. one of a band of ecstatic visionaries claiming divine inspiration and, according to popular belief, possessing magical powers. a person who practices divination.
3. one of a class of persons in the early church, next in order after the apostles, recognized as inspired to utter special revelations and predictions. 1 Cor. 12:28.
4. the Prophet, Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
5. a person regarded as, or claiming to be, an inspired teacher or leader.
6. a person who foretells or predicts what is to come:
7. a spokesperson of some doctrine, cause, or movement.

Origin of Prophet

1150-1200; Middle English prophete Late Latin prophēta Greek prophḗtēs, equivalent to pro- pro-² + -phētēs speaker, derivative of phánai to speak

Examples for Prophet

It was the only one, we were told, which follows the way of the prophet and truly represents Islam.

I'm willing to risk my reputation as a prophet and say that the dawn will come with rain.

But a pig is only the unclean animal—the forbidden of the prophet.

Any fool of a prophet must hit the bull's eye at least once in a life.

But so are plenty of histories that try to attack the prophet.

At best they can only interpret the mind of the prophet, and can have no objective value.

“Paradise lies at the feet of mothers,” Erdogan said on Monday, quoting the prophet Muhammad.

Was there no prophet, no redemption, no mediator for such as these?

“You are a prophet and you are the bad man,” he says of his skin color.

Our duty is to make sure that they realize that the prophet is not avenged.