ro.eh denotes a person sought for guidance and identified in the passage as a title also used for a prophet.

The attested passages use the participial form as a designation for a person whom people seek out and locate: Saul asks for this person’s house, Samuel identifies himself with the designation, and the passage connects it with the title “prophet.”

1. A person consulted and identified by title · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 9:11 and 1 Samuel 9:18, the masculine singular active participle occurs in questions about whether this person is present and where his house is; the APB renders the clauses “Is the seer here?” and “where the house of the seer is.” In 1 Samuel 9:19 Samuel says “I am the seer,” while 1 Samuel 9:9 places the designation in a statement about going to seek God and says that the person called “prophet” was formerly called “seer.”

   1 Samuel 9:111 Samuel 9:181 Samuel 9:191 Samuel 9:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the designation as “seer” in the questions, Samuel’s self-identification, and the explanatory statement in 1 Samuel 9:9. This rendering confirms the verse-level presentation rather than isolating each token independently.