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Foretell
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or with the aorist form proeipon, and a perfect form proeireka (from proereo), signifies (1) "to declare openly" or "plainly," or "to say" or "tell beforehand" (pro, "before," lego, "to say"), translated in 2 Corinthians 13:2 (in the first sentence), RV, "I have said beforehand," AV, "I told ... before;" in the next sentence, AV, "I foretell," RV, "I do say beforehand" (marg., "plainly"); not prophecy is here in view, but a warning given before and repeated (see under FOREWARN): (2) "to speak before, of prophecy," as "foretelling" the future, Mark 13:23 , AV, "have foretold," RV, "have told ... beforehand;" Acts 1:16 (of the prophecy concerning Judas); Romans 9:29; 2 Peter 3:2; Jude 1:17; some inferior mss. have it in Hebrews 10:15 . See FOREWARN , SPEAK , TELL.
Note: In Acts 3:24 some mss. have prokatangello (see FORESHEW); the most authentic have katangello, RV , "told."These files are public domain.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Foretell'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/f/foretell.html. 1940.
