Prophets

4 9.1

A group of books in the Hebrew Bible that tell about people who speak for God

noun
/ˈprɒfɪts/

: Profetas

In the synagogue, we read passages from the Prophets during the worship service.

And so then they get to the prophets.

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Examples

In the name of the Prophets.

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Do you know the Prophets?

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Holy God of the Prophets.

Heaven's Gate (1980)
So Adam through Muhammad you have many of the prophets that are mentioned in the Old Testament.
Yet, God has said it all before to Noah Moses, Jesus and all the Prophets -

The Message (1976)
In his book, he points at all prophets as evidence of wrongdoing.
What all the prophets say and all the religions promote is true.
Nearly all the great sages and prophets were aristocrats.
Sitting listening to King's lecture and thinking to himself, I hear the Hebrew prophets in this man's voice.
Jesus quoted Hosea 6:6 more frequently than any other text of the Prophets: "I desire loving kindness, not sacrifice."

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Synonyms

Nevi'im

vsProphets

Specialized

1 9.9

The second part of the Hebrew Bible that has the books of the prophets like Joshua and Isaiah

has identical meaning but is a different form of the same name

Nebiim

vsProphets

9.9

A group of books in the Hebrew Bible that contain writings by prophets

has identical meaning but is an alternate spelling or form of the name

Surface Forms

Prophet singular

Prophets plural

Morphology

Prophets = prophet (transparent) = prophet + s

Formally the regular plural of 'prophet'; the meaning as a collection of prophetic figures or as the title for the biblical division is directly inferable from 'prophet' + plural.

Etymology

Prophets comes from Greek parts: pro- meaning 'before' and phēmi meaning 'to speak', so a prophet is someone who 'speaks before' others, often giving God's message or saying what may happen. That's why the Bible books called the Prophets collect those messages and predictions.