1) to prophesy, to be a prophet, speak forth by divine inspirations, to predict

a) to prophesy

b) with the idea of foretelling future events pertaining esp. to the kingdom of God

c) to utter forth, declare, a thing which can only be known by divine revelation

d) to break forth under sudden impulse in lofty discourse or praise of the divine counsels

1) under like prompting, to teach, refute, reprove, admonish, comfort others

e) to act as a prophet, discharge the prophetic office

[View this word in Trench's Synonyms here.]