προφητικός
prophetic
‘prophetic’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G4397 appears in the Book of Romans — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Romans
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, προφητικος (prophētikós) means “prophetic.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Romans (50%), then 2 Peter. It first appears in Romans 16:26. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4397 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Prophecy 1×, Prophets 1×
- American Standard Version: Prophecy 1×, Prophets 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Prophets 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Prophetic 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4397 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4397 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4397 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4397 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- proceeding from a prophet
- prophetic
Word origin
Derived from προφητης (prophḗtēs) (G4396) — prophet.
From G4396 ; pertaining to a foreteller (prophetic): - of prophecy of the prophets.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4397 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| προφητικὸν prophētikòn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Peter 1:19 | 1 |
| προφητικῶν prophētikō̂n | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Romans 16:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4397, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- προφητεια prophēteía G4394 prophecy
- προφητευω prophēteúō G4395 to prophesy
- προφητις prophētis G4398 prophetess
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
