- a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- (in the Old Testament)
- a person chosen to speak for God and to guide the people of Israel: Moses was the greatest of Old Testament prophets.
- one of the Major or Minor Prophets.
- one of a band of ecstatic visionaries claiming divine inspiration and, according to popular belief, possessing magical powers.
- a person who practices divination.
- one of a class of persons in the early church, next in order after the apostles, recognized as inspired to utter special revelations and predictions. 1 Corinthians 12:28.
- Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
- a person regarded as, or claiming to be, an inspired teacher or leader.
- a person who foretells or predicts what is to come: a weather prophet; prophets of doom.
- a spokesperson of some doctrine, cause, or movement.
- a person who supposedly speaks by divine inspiration, esp one through whom a divinity expresses his will
- a person who predicts the future
- a spokesman for a movement, doctrine, etc
- Christian Science
- a seer in spiritual matters
- the vanishing of material sense to give way to the conscious facts of spiritual truth
- the principal designation of Mohammed as the founder of Islam
- a name for Joseph Smith as founder of the Mormon Church
