Oracles (2024)

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What do we mean by oracles? ›

a person who delivers authoritative, wise, or highly regarded and influential pronouncements. a divine communication or revelation. any person or thing serving as an agency of divine communication. any utterance made or received as authoritative, extremely wise, or infallible.

: a person giving wise or authoritative decisions or opinions.

This phrase, "oracles of God," occurs just three times in the New Testament. The word "oracles" (Greek logion) was understood by the Greeks of that day to refer to actual supernatural utterances given by a spirit through a human medium.

oracle, (Latin oraculum from orare, “to pray,” or “to speak”), divine communication delivered in response to a petitioner's request; also, the seat of prophecy itself. Oracles were a branch of divination but differed from the casual pronouncements of augurs by being associated with a definite person or place.

The Bible's definition of oracle is different from common usage i.e. in Hebrew Scriptures it means Holy Place where the Umin and thumin were used to determine certain events by the priest or a prophet. The Christian Greek Scriptures it is defined as sacred pronouncements or devine utterances.

An individual (or group of individuals) with specialized knowledge in a specific field can serve as human oracles. They are trusted to verify the authenticity and accuracy of certain information, before submitting the data using a cryptographically secure public and private key.

An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities.

An "oracle" is a spoken revelation. "Living" means that they offer life. The Mosaic law was words that brought physical and spiritual life to the Israelites, if they followed it. Today, Jesus is the living Word that brings us life (John 1:1–5).

The sibyls (Σίβυλλαι, pl. of Σίβυλλα, pronounced [sí. byl. lai, sí.byl.la]) were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece.

The most famous ancient oracle was that of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mt. Parnassus above the Corinthian Gulf.

Why would a person go to see an oracle? ›

In the ancient world, people used to visit oracles for just this purpose. Oracles were places where people could receive prophecies. Prophecies were predictions about what would happen, sent down from the gods.

An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. If done through occultic means, it is a form of divination.

ISAIAH'S ORACLE IN ITS CONTEXT

The first meaning explains an imagery of “a rightful leadership” emerging from the line of Jesse (4:4; 11:1-2). 7. The second meaning refers to the emerged. leadership and its commitment to exploiting the land for the common good in society (4:2).