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What Does “Seer” Mean in the Bible?

Office or title

That is what a prophet used to be called, because God let him see what others could not see.

Where it appears in the Bible

1 Samuel 9:9

What the Bible says

1 Samuel 9:9

Now in time past, in Israel when a man went to consult God he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: 1 Samuel 9:9; RAE, “vidente”

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