Definition of Prophesy

Prophesy

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.

To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.

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Prophesy Quotations

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark Twain

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
Josh Billings

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
Keith Miller

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.
Fredrik Bajer

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.
Roger Williams

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
Auberon Herbert

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Prophesy Translations

prophesy in Danish is forudsige
prophesy in Dutch is voorzeggen, beduiden, voorspellen
prophesy in German is prophezeien
prophesy in Swedish is profetera

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