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What is the difference between a prophet and a seer?



      

1 Samuel 9:11

ESV - 11 As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, "Is the seer here?

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Mini Tim Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
In my opinion, the title "prophet" is a more inclusive term that encompasses the function of a "seer". One way that I have seen it expressed is that a prophet is at once a teacher or proclaimer of known truth, a perceiver of hidden truth (seer), and a bearer of new truth (a revelator).

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