Luk 2:36 | RWP | e4.org | One Anna a prophetess ( Hαννα προφητις ). The word προφητις occurs in the N.T. only here and . In old Greek writers it means a woman who interprets oracles. The long parenthesis into verse tells of her great age. Montefiore makes it 106 as she was 15 when married, married 7 years, a widow 84.

‏ Luke 2:36

One Anna a prophetess ( Hαννα προφητις ). The word προφητις occurs in the N.T. only here and Re 2:20. In old Greek writers it means a woman who interprets oracles. The long parenthesis into verse 37 tells of her great age. Montefiore makes it 106 as she was 15 when married, married 7 years, a widow 84.