How To Use Prophetess In A Sentence
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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,
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The path the woman had followed had disappeared; the place she had arrived at was too holy for anyone to tread on unless for the purpose of taking an offering to the prophetess.
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The prophetess is forgotten for the voices that speak through her.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Mary, the sister of Moses, is called a prophetess; Anna, the mother of Samuel, prophesied; Elizabeth, the mother of John the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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That appreciation and expression of the beautiful is something that the French explorers in that other world -- the valley reached of the pioneers of the seeing eyes and the understanding hearts -- have carried and will continue to carry over those same portages, to give that virile life of the west some of those higher satisfactions of which this daughter of the portage is the prophetess.
The French in the Heart of America
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I have spent a good deal of the last three and a half years researching the Sibyl of Cumae, the pagan prophetess of classical antiquity said by Virgil to write her oracles on leaves.
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It happened, on one occasion, when a nursery-servant of ours was waiting in her anteroom for the purpose of taking her turn in consulting the prophetess professionally, that she had witnessed a scene of consternation and unaffected maternal grief in this Hungarian lady upon the sudden seizure of her son, a child of four or five years old, by a spasmodic inflammation of the throat (since called croup) peculiar to children, and in those days not very well understood by medical men.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1
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Finally, the third: people without religion, accustomed to pillage, to murder, to quarter themselves upon the peasants; a rascalry furious, fanatical, and swarming with prophetesses.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
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We're told she's a prophetess in Richard III and that she has tremendous accuracy.
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So I prepared and planned, and when the first one, Aries, was ready, I waited for the sign from the prophetess.
GING GANG GOOLIE IT'S AN ALIEN
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His Wife is called the prophetess [Isa 8: 3], that is, endowed, as
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It happened, on one occasion, when a nursery-servant of ours was waiting in her anteroom for the purpose of taking her turn in consulting the prophetess professionally, that she had witnessed a scene of consternation and unaffected maternal grief in this Hungarian lady upon the sudden seizure of her son, a child of four or five years old, by a spasmodic inflammation of the throat (since called croup), peculiar to children, and in those days not very well understood by medical men.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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By the 1710s impresario John Rich was once again presenting the semi operas The Island Princess and The Prophetess as well as a full opera, Bonocini's Camilla in English.
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Otherwise a severe eschatological affliction awaits her and her children, the spiritual followers of the prophetess.
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And do you think that Lyissa will become a prophetess herself?
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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.
Introduction - Critical Apparatus
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There was also a prophetess , Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.
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Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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Of the seven — Sarah, Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, Huldah and Esther — three are actually referred to as nevi’ot (prophetesses) in the biblical text itself.
Leadership and Authority.
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As it is written by the prophetesses of ancient times, the original followers of the Lesbite Code of Sappho were scattered to the four corners of the earth, divided into 12 tribes, led into exile by the high priestesses.
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At the time of the birth of the Christ, Anna was a prophetess who was at the Temple when the Messiah was brought there as an infant.
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We also know that women had their own role in the church, and that from very early on there were particular groups of charismatic women, such as the prophetesses, the deacons, the widows, the virgins, and so on.
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Wouldn't it be easier just to ask the prophetess to consult her little psychic ability?
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Miriam was called a prophetess, as the Lord had, on some occasions, it is said, spoken through her, giving messages to the women.
The Woman's Bible
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Anna also, a prophetess, came in and confirmed Simeon's testimony concerning Christ.
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Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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In book three, Helenus tells Aeneas and his men that they must seek their future from the inspired prophetess of Cumae, who spells out the decree of the fates on the fragile parchment of leaves.
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The prophetesses peer into the future, and see nothing untoward, but they, too, dream and awake screaming.
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Isaiah was so completely a prophet that even his wife was called the prophetess after him.
Prolegomena
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Is the little prophetess spreading her little stories around again?
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Prepare to be told about sailing routes and prevailing weather conditions in the North Atlantic; pagan Norse baby naming traditions; Icelandic domestic life, including details of clothes, furniture, diet and agriculture; Norse witchcraft (seidr) and prophetesses (volva); Norse ship design; Irish social structure, monastic organisation, medicine and law.
Archive 2006-07-01
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He allowed that good philosophy could be extracted at shrines from inspired oracles uttered by Apollo through his prophetesses.
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In Ezekiel 13: 17-20, for example, God condemns certain false prophetesses, or sorceresses.
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The prophetess of Delphi, and the priestess of Dodona, many are the benefits which in their phrensies (moments of inspiration) they have bestowed upon Greece; but in their hours of self-possession, few or none.
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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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.
The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable
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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.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
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We get to Judges and we see the story of Deborah (a prophetess: one who acts as the voice of God to the people), wholly called and equipped by God to lead Israel.
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He was of the Tribe of Judah and his wife was a prophetess.
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Olga did not have to return the dollar but in fact reinforced her reputation as a prophetess.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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After a series of grammatical errors and further assaults on the English language he brought his spirited sermon to an end and introduced to the pulpit a trendy-looking prophetess named Marline.
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Their raft grounded at the peak of Mount Parnassus, and they immediately gave thanks to the gods of the mountain and to the prophetess Themis, guardian of the oracle.
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When they are to arrive in Italy they are to seek out a prophetess called the Sibyl at Cumae.
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In addition, the prophetess of ‘anti-globalisation’ now hates the word.
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The prophetess smoothed the front of her skirt, absent-mindedly removing a tiny speck of dust.
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But it has great elements -- the idolon, the chastity of Helen, the prophetess Theonoe which has to be one of the best names for a prophetess ever.
Archive 2005-03-01
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Methinks it's she who fancies herself as the ignored prophetess who's in the end proved correct by the events.
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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.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
