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 →

2) (noun form: prophecy) A prophecy is such a foretelling. tree →

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 →
• Can you prophesy who will win the race? tree →
• In the tale, the daisy can prophesy the truth of love. tree →
• The old man prophesied a happy ending. tree →

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.'
• And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
• And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied.
• And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
• And I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused My people Israel to err.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «prophesy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.