Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- prophet
- Transliteration
- prophet
- Rejected alternatives
- a tech prophet / prophet of doom (secular usage for a confident forecaster or a pessimistic commentator)
Prophet
Secular usage applies ‘prophet’ loosely to any confident public forecaster (‘a tech prophet,’ ‘a prophet of doom’), diluting the specific sense of one who speaks God’s own revealed word rather than making an educated guess about the future.