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Seer
A name sometimes applied to the prophets because of the visions granted to them. It is first found in 1 Sam 9:9. It is afterwards applied to Zadok, Gad, etc. (2 Sam 15:27; 2 Sam 24:11; 1 Chr 9:22; 1 Chr 25:5; 2 Chr 9:29; Amos 7:12; Mic 3:7). The “sayings of the seers” (2 Chr 33:18, 2 Chr 33:19) is rendered in the Revised Version “the history of Hozai” (marg., the seers; so the LXX.), of whom, however, nothing is known. (See Prophet.)
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
