foretell

Object

• prophet: Jesus truly is the prophet foretold by Moses who speaks the words God has put into his mouth.
• scenario: Some people are making wild guesses and foretell a doomsday scenario for the world.
• future: The only thing is - you won't need a crystal ball to foretell the future.
• destruction: A Centauri seeress foretells the destruction of Babylon 5. A mysterious stranger visits each of Babylon 5's alien ambassadors.
• death: Probably I should have found out if he thought the slump foretold the death of cinema.
• event: Chad Valley Spring used to foretell events like battles the plague.

Subject

• prophet: It had been foretold by the Prophets, he said.

Modifying Another Word

• also: He later forecast the failure of the siege levied on Samaria by Ben-hadad, whose death at the hands of Hazael Elisha also foretold.
• not: His early career did not foretell his artistic interests.
• accurately: When Janie emerges at her command she accurately foretells her future.
• often: In Scotland, a similar legendary spirit normally takes the form of a drummer boy or piper and likewise often foretells death or misfortune.
• clearly: But now for the proof: The Prophesy of Daniel I. The system of Popery was clearly foretold by the prophet Daniel.
• only: But this unique physicist, engineer and famed science fiction writer has not only foretold the future, he's helped shape it.

Used with why or when

• what: Astrology, palm reading, whatever - you can't foretell what will happen to you.

Preposition: in

• prophesy: The one is the Coming foretold in Hebrew prophesy, which will bring deliverance to the favored nation in days to come.
• scripture: But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture.
• verse: He was an Ishmaelite and accordingly is automatically disqualified from being the prophet whose coming was foretold in that verse.

Preposition: by

• prophet: It had been foretold by the Prophets, he said.
• mouth: But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
• prophesy: Each bears a mystical blade, blades foretold by prophesy.