ΠΡΟΕΘΕΣΠΙΣΕΝ, προεθεσπισεν
PROETHESPISEN, proethespisen
Sounds Like: pro-eth-ES-pis-en
Translations: he foretold, she foretold, it foretold, he prophesied beforehand, she prophesied beforehand, it prophesied beforehand
From the root: ΘΕΣΠΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from the prefix ΠΡΟ- (pro-), meaning 'before' or 'in advance,' and the verb ΘΕΣΠΙΖΩ (thespizo), meaning 'to prophesy' or 'to declare by divine inspiration.' Therefore, the combined meaning is 'to prophesy beforehand' or 'to foretell.' It describes an action of declaring something divinely inspired before it happens.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person Singular
Strong’s number: G2313 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:34
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΕΣΠΙΖΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΕΣΠΙΣΑΝ — they prophesied, they foretold, they declared, they decreed
- ΘΕΣΠΙΖΟΥΣΑΙ — prophesying, foretelling, divining
- ΘΕΣΠΙΖΟΥΣΗΣ — (of) prophesying, (of) foretelling, (of) divining, (of) her who prophesies, (of) one who prophesies
- ΘΕΣΠΙΖΩ — to prophesy, to divine, to declare by divine inspiration, to utter oracles
- ΠΡΟΕΘΕΣΠΙΖΩ — to prophesy beforehand, to foretell, to predict
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