PROPHETS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Prophets mean? 

• PROPHETS (noun)
  The noun PROPHETS has 1 sense:

1. the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures

  Familiarity information: PROPHETS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPHETS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Nebiim; Prophets

Instance hypernyms:

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Meronyms (parts of "Prophets"):

Book of Joshua; Joshua; Josue (a book in the Old Testament describing how Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) after the death of Moses)

Book of Zachariah; Zacharias; Zechariah (an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zechariah which are concerned mainly with the renewal of Israel after the Babylonian Captivity)

Aggeus; Book of Haggai; Haggai (an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Haggai which are concerned mainly with rebuilding the temples after the Babylonian Captivity)

Book of Zephaniah; Sophonias; Zephaniah (an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zephaniah which are concerned mainly with the approaching judgment by God upon the sinners of Judah)

Book of Habakkuk; Habacuc; Habakkuk (an Old Testament book telling Habakkuk's prophecies)

Book of Nahum; Nahum (an Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall of Nineveh)

Book of Micah; Micah; Micheas (an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Micah foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem)

Book of Jonah; Jonah (a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale)

Abdias; Book of Obadiah; Obadiah (an Old Testament book telling Obadiah's prophecies; the shortest book in the Christian Bible)

Amos; Book of Amos (an Old Testament book telling Amos's prophecies)

Book of Joel; Joel (an Old Testament book telling Joel's prophecies)

Book of Hosea; Hosea (an Old Testament book telling Hosea's prophecies)

Book of Ezekiel; Ezechiel; Ezekiel (an Old Testament book containing Ezekiel's prophecies of the downfall of Jerusalem and Judah and their subsequent restoration)

Book of Jeremiah; Jeremiah (a book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the prophet Jeremiah)

Book of Isaiah; Isaiah (an Old Testament book consisting of Isaiah's prophecies)

2 Kings; II Kings (the second of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel)

1 Kings; I Kings (the first of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel)

2 Samuel; II Samuel (the second of two books of the Old Testament that tell of Saul and David)

1 Samuel; I Samuel (the first of two books in the Old Testament that tell of Saul and David)

Book of Judges; Judges (a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges)

Holonyms ("Prophets" is a part of...):

Hebrew Scripture; Tanach; Tanakh (the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings)

 Context examples 

You persecute the prophets! Galileo! Darwin, and I— (Prolonged cheering and complete interruption.)

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know for myself that I was shocked into admiration of the boy, and I saw in him the splendid invincibleness of immortality rising above the flesh and the fears of the flesh, as in the prophets of old, to condemn unrighteousness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One great excellency in this tribe, is their skill at prognostics, wherein they seldom fail; their predictions in real diseases, when they rise to any degree of malignity, generally portending death, which is always in their power, when recovery is not: and therefore, upon any unexpected signs of amendment, after they have pronounced their sentence, rather than be accused as false prophets, they know how to approve their sagacity to the world, by a seasonable dose.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)