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