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Person thought to speak from divine inspiration or one who foretells the future. Prophets whose words and actions are recorded in the Bible include Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. In Islam, Muhammad is believed to be the last and greatest of over 124,000 prophets beginning with Adam and including Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus.

In the Bible, a prophet is any of the succession of saints and seers who preached and prophesied in the Hebrew kingdoms in Palestine from the 8th century BC until the suppression of Jewish independence in 586 BC, and possibly later. The prophetic books of the Old Testament constitute a division of the Hebrew Bible.

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