prophetess
IPA: prˈɑfʌtʌs
noun
- A female prophet.
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Examples of "prophetess" in Sentences
- The prophetess is forgotten for the voices that speak through her.
- His Wife is called the prophetess [Isa 8: 3], that is, endowed, as
- Isaiah was so completely a prophet that even his wife was called the prophetess after him.
- Mary, the sister of Moses, is called a prophetess; Anna, the mother of Samuel, prophesied; Elizabeth, the mother of John the
- Miriam was called a prophetess, as the Lord had, on some occasions, it is said, spoken through her, giving messages to the women.
- But when he held it to the fading light of the window which opened upon the street where the woman called the prophetess had cursed him, the eyes of the child did not close, neither did their pupils diminish.
- However, he has the presence of mind to throw them on the shoulders of Diotima, whom he calls a prophetess, and who, ten years before the plague broke out in Athens, obtained from the gods (he tells us) that delay.
- Similarly, the gift of Esther, the prophetess, is also undermined, her warnings about entering Baghdad, especially as associated with Ahab, apparently being motivated at least as much by jealousy as by spirituality.
- The policy of Barak, then, to have the presence of the prophetess is perfectly intelligible as it would no less stimulate the valor of the troops, than sanction, in the eyes of Israel, the uprising against an oppressor so powerful as Jabin.
- His wife (because the wife of a prophet) is called the prophetess; she conceived and bore a son, another son, who must carry a sermon in his name, as the former had done (ch.vii. 3), but with this difference, that spoke mercy, Shear-jashub -- The remnant shall return; but, that being slighted, this speaks judgment,
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