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# prophesy

«prophesy» in Mova's school dictionary: **To say what will happen in the future, by special power…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (prophesy, prophesies, prophesied, prophesying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To say what will happen in the future, by special power or by a strong guess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophesy/#m1)

2) (noun form: prophecy) A prophecy is such a foretelling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophesy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a wise woman or a magic flower can prophesy the fate of a hero or a girl

### examples

- The wise woman prophesied a storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophesy/#x1)
- Can you prophesy who will win the race? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophesy/#x2)
- In the tale, the daisy can prophesy the truth of love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophesy/#x3)
- The old man prophesied a happy ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophesy/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said: 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.462/)
- [And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.242/)
- [And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.570/)
- [And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.571/)
- [And I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused My people Israel to err.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.629/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prophesy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophesy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.