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   prophet

   /ˈprɒfɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God: "the Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah"
   • ▪ (among Muslims) Muhammad.
   • ▪ (among the Latter-day Saints or Mormons) Joseph Smith or one of his successors.
   • ▪ a person who advocates or speaks in a visionary way about a new cause or theory: "he is repeatedly hailed as a prophet of modernism"
   • ▪ a person who predicts what will happen in the future: "the prime minister ignored the prophets of doom"
   • 2. (in Christian use) the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the twelve minor prophets.
   • ▪ (in Jewish use) one of the three canonical divisions of the Hebrew Bible, distinguished from the Law and the Hagiographa, and comprising the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and the twelve minor prophets.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French prophete, via Latin from Greek prophētēs ‘spokesman’, from pro ‘before’ + phētēs ‘speaker’ (from phēnai ‘speak’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. prophethood noun
   • 2. prophetism noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

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     3

   • R

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   • O

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   • P

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   • H

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   • E

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   • T

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