The following is meant to be an exhaustive list of every named prophet and seer in the Bible. Prophets and seers have a shared history. If I have missed anyone please leave a comment below.
Interesting facts:
- Abraham is the first named prophet
- There are no named seers in the New Testament
- Gad, Iddo, Samuel, Asaph are named as both prophets and seers
- Hanani is named as a seer, his son Jehu is named as a prophet
- The named prophetesses are Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, wife of Isaiah, Anna, and daughters of Philip the evangelist
- There are no named female seers
- Prophecy seems to run in family lines (Aaron/Miraim/Moses, Hanani/Jehu, Iddo/Zechariah, David/Solomon)
Prophets:
- Aaron (brother to Miriam, Moses): Exodus 7:1
- Abraham: Genesis 20:7
- Agabus: Acts 11:28, Acts 21:10
- Ahijah the Shilonite: 1 Kings 11:29, 1 Kings 14:2
- Amos: Amos 7:14-15, Acts 7:42, Acts 15:15 (Amos 9:11)
- Anna (prophetess): Luke 2:36
- Asaph: Matthew 13:35
- Balaam (false prophet): 2 Peter 2:16 (Numbers 22:28)
- Bar-Jesus (false prophet): Acts 13:6
- Daniel: Book of Daniel, Matthew 24:15
- Daughters (four) of Philip the evangelist: Acts 21:9
- David: Acts 2:30
- Deborah (prophetess): Judges 4:4
- Elijah: 1 Kings 18:22, 2 Chronicles 21:12, Malachi 4:5 (John the Baptist)
- Elisha: 1 Kings 19:16, 2 Kings 2:15, 2 Kings 3:11, 2 Kings 5:3, 2 Kings 6:12, 2 Kings 9:1, Luke 4:27
- Epimenides (Greek/Cretan false prophet and poet): Titus 1:12
- Ezekiel: Ezekiel 2:5, Ezekiel 33:33
- Gad: 1 Samuel 22:5, 2 Samuel 24:11
- Habakkuk: Habakkuk 1:1, Habakkuk 3:1, Acts 13:40
- Haggai: Ezra 5:1, Ezra 6:14, Haggai 1:1, Haggai 1:3, Haggai 1:12, Haggai 2:1, Haggai 2:10
- Hananiah (false prophet): Jeremiah 28:1, Jeremiah 28:5, Jeremiah 28:10, Jeremiah 28:12, Jeremiah 28:15, Jeremiah 28:17, Jeremiah 29:29, Jeremiah 32:2
- Hosea: Book of Hosea, Matthew 2:15
- Huldah (prophetess): 2 Kings 22:14, 2 Chronicles 34:22
- Iddo (grandfather to Zechariah): 2 Chronicles 13:22, Zechariah 1:1
- Isaiah (son of Amoz): 2 Kings 19:2, 2 Kings 20:1, 20 Kings 20:11, 2 Kings 20:14, 2 Chronicles 26:22, 2 Chronicles 32:20, 2 Chronicles 32:32, Isaiah 37:2, Isaiah 38:1, Isaiah 39:3, Matthew 1:22, Matthew 3:3, Matthew 4:14, Matthew 8:17, Matthew 12:17, Mark 1:2, Luke 3:4, Luke 4:17, John 1:23, John 12:38, Acts 8:28, Acts 8:30, Acts 8:34, Acts 28:25
- Jehu (son of Hanani): 1 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 9:4
- Jeremiah: 2 Chronicles 36:12, Jeremiah 1:5, Jeremiah 20:2, Jeremiah 28:6, Jeremiah 28:11, Jeremiah 28:12, Jeremiah 28:15, Jeremiah 29:1, Jeremiah 34:6, Jeremiah 36:8, Jeremiah 36:26, Jeremiah 37:3, Jeremiah 37:6, Jeremiah 37:13, Jeremiah 38:9, Jeremiah 38:10, Jeremiah 38:14, Jeremiah 42:2, Jeremiah 42:4, Jeremiah 43:6, Jeremiah 45:1, Jeremiah 46:1, Jeremiah 46:13, Jeremiah 47:1, Jeremiah 49:34, Jeremiah 50:1, Jeremiah 51:59, Daniel 9:2, Matthew 2:17, Matthew 27:9
- Jesus: Matthew 16:14, Matthew 21:11, Matthew 21:46, Mark 8:28, Mark 11:32, Luke 7:16, Luke 7:39, Luke 13:33, Luke 24:19, John 4:19, John 6:14, John 7:40, John 9:17, Acts 3:22, Acts 3:23, Acts 7:37
- Jezebel of Thyatira (false prophetess): Revelation 2:20
- Joel: Book of Joel, Acts 2:16
- John the Apostle: Book of Revelation
- John the Baptist: Malachi 4:5, Matthew 11:9, Matthew 12:39, Matthew 14:5, Matthew 21:26, Mark 6:15, Luke 1:76, Luke 7:26, Luke 20:6
- Jonah the son of Amittai: 2 Kings 14:25, Book of Jonah
- Judas Barsabbas: Acts 15:32
- Oded: 2 Chronicles 28:9
- Malachi: Book of Malachi
- Micah: Jeremiah 26:18, Book of Micah, Matthew 2:5
- Micaiah: 1 Kings 22:8
- Miriam (prophetess, sister to Aaron, Moses): Exodus 15:20
- Moses (brother to Aaron, Miriam): Exodus 18:15, Deuteronomy 34:10
- Nahum: Book of Nahum
- Nathan: 2 Samuel 7:2, 2 Samuel 12:25, 1 Kings 1:8, 1 Chronicles 17:1, 1 Chronicles 29:29, 2 Chronicles 9:29, 2 Chronicles 29:25, Psalm 51:1
- Noadiah (false prophetess): Nehemiah 6:14
- Obadiah: Book of Obadiah
- Samuel: 1 Samuel 3:20, 2 Chronicles 35:18, Acts 3:24, Acts 13:20
- Shemaiah: 2 Chronicles 12:5, 2 Chronicles 12:15
- Solomon: Acts 7:48 (1 Kings 8:27)
- Silas: Acts 15:32
- Wife of Isaiah: Isaiah 8:3
- Zechariah (son of Iddo): Ezra 5:1, Ezra 6:14, Zechariah 1:1, Zechariah 1:7, Matthew 21:4
- Zephaniah: Book of Zephaniah
Unnamed Prophets:
- A prophet (describe as a role or type of person generally): Matthew 10:41, Matthew 11:9, Matthew 13:57, Matthew 23:29, Mark 6:4, Luke 4:24
- As Israel battles Midian: Judges 6:8
- Old prophet of Bethel: 1 Kings 13:11
- Prophesies to Ahab: 1 Kings 20:13
- Prophesies to Amaziah: 2 Chronicles 25:15, 2 Chronicles 25:16
- The False Prophet: Revelation 16:13, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:10
- Two Witnesses: Revelation 11:10
Groups of Prophets:
- False prophets of Asherah: 1 Kings 18:19
- False prophets of Baal: 1 Kings 18:19, 2 Kings 10:19, Jeremiah 2:8
- From Samaria (some commentaries say Amos): 2 Kings 23:18
- Israelite prophets at the time of Ahab: 1 Kings 22:6, 2 Chronicles 18:5, 2 Chronicles 18:9
- Israelite Prophets at the time of Amos: Amos 2:11, Amos 3:7
- Israelite prophets at time of David and Saul: 1 Samuel 10:5, 1 Samuel 19:20
- Israelite prophets at the time of Ezekiel: Ezekiel 13:2
- Israelite prophets at the time of Ezra & Nehemiah: Ezra 5:2, Nehemiah 6:7, Nehemiah 9:32
- Israelite prophets at time of Hosea: Hosea 9:7
- Israelite prophets at the time of Isaiah: Isaiah 29:10
- Israelite prophets at the time of Joash: 2 Chronicles 24:19
- Israelite prophets at the time of Josiah: 2 Kings 23:2
- Israelite prophets at the time of Jeremiah: Jeremiah 2:6, Lamentations 2:9
- Israelite prophets at the time of Manasseh: 2 Kings 21:10
- Israelite prophets at the time of Micah: Micah 3:5
- Israelite prophets at the time of Zephaniah: Zephaniah 3:4
- Sons of prophets: 2 Kings 6:1, 2 Kings 2:3, 2 Kings 4:1, 2 Kings 4:38
- The Lord’s holy prophets: Luke 1:70
- Those killed by Jezebel: 2 Kings 9:7
- Those who gave the Nazarene prophecy: Matthew 2:23
- The Prophets: Matthew 5:17, Matthew 7:12, Matthew 11:13, Matthew 22:40, Matthew 26:56, Luke 16:16, Luke 16:29, Luke 16:31, Luke 24:27, Luke 24:44, John 1:45
- With Obadiah: 1 Kings 18:4
Prophesies yet not explicitly named as a prophet:
- Azariah the son of Oded: 2 Chronicles 15:8
- Caiaphas the High Priest: John 11:51
- Enoch: Jude 1:14
- David’s Musicians: 1 Chronicles 25:1
- Daughters of Phillip the evangelist: Acts 21:9
- Eliezer the son of Dodavahu: 2 Chronicles 20:37
- King Saul: 1 Samuel 10:10, 1 Samuel 19:23-24
- Messengers of Saul: 1 Samuel 19:20, 1 Samuel 19:21
- Seventy elders with Moses at Sinai: Numbers 11:25
- Shemaiah of Nehelam (false prophecy): Jeremiah 29:31
- Shemaiah the son of Delaiah (false prophecy): Nehemiah 6:12
- Sons of Jeduthun: 1 Chronicles 25:3
- Timothy’s council of elders: 1 Timothy 4:14
- Uriah the son of Shemaiah: Jeremiah 26:20
- Zechariah (father of John the Baptist): Luke 1:67
Seers:
- Amos: Amos 7:12
- Asaph: 2 Chronicles 29:30
- Gad: 2 Samuel 24:11, 1 Chronicles 21:9, 1 Chronicles 29:29, 2 Chronicles 29:25
- Hanani (father to Jehu): 2 Chronicles 16:7, 2 Chronicles 16:10, 2 Chronicles 19:2
- Heman: 1 Chronicles 25:5
- Iddo (father of Zechariah): 2 Chronicles 9:29, 2 Chronicles 12:15
- Jeduthun: 2 Chronicles 35:15
- Samuel: 1 Samuel 9:11, 1 Samuel 9:18, 1 Samuel 9:19, 1 Chronicles 9:22, 1 Chronicles 26:28, 1 Chronicles 29:29
- Zadok: 2 Samuel 15:27
Groups of seers:
- Israelite seers at the time of Assyria: 2 Kings 17:13
- Israelite seers at the time of Isaiah: Isaiah 29:10, Isaiah 30:10
- Israelite seers at the time of Manasseh: 2 Chronicles 33:18
- Israelite seers at the time of Micah: Micah 3:7
- Those in the Chronicles of the Seers: 2 Chronicles 33:19