List of prophets in the Bible (+/-)

Just a Note of Caution: Both Positive and Negative Prophets are contain in the list below:

There are about 88 prophets featured or mentioned in the Bible. A prophet is someone who receives revelations from God.

Of those, 63 are in the Old Testament and 25 are in the New Testament.

The list below shows the name of the prophet, in alphabetical order, and the first Bible verse in which they are referred to as being a prophet.

For Isaac, Job and Peter in the “First appearance” column, you’ll see an asterisk after their Bible verses. These three prophets were not explicity identified as prophets but these Bible verses show examples of prophecies that these Biblical figures received.

The chart also shows the testament era in which the prophet lived.

1
-Aaron
Old Testament
2
Abel
Old Testament
3
Abraham
Old Testament
4
Agabus
Old Testament
5
Agur
Old Testament
6
Ahab
Old Testament
8
Amos
Old Testament
9
Anna
New Testament
10
Antichrist
New Testament
11
Asaph
Old Testament
12
Azariah
Old Testament
13
Azur
Old Testament
14
Barnabas
New Testament
15
Daniel
Old Testament
16
David
Old Testament
17
Deborah
Old Testament
18
Eldad
Old Testament
19
Eliezer
Old Testament
20
Elihu
Old Testament
21
Elijah
Old Testament
22
Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist
New Testament
23
Elisha
Old Testament
24
Elymas (Bar-Jesus)
New Testament
25
Enoch
Old Testament
26
Ezekiel
Old Testament
27
Gad
Old Testament
28
Habakkuk
Old Testament
29
Haggai
Old Testament
30
Hanani
Old Testament
31
Hananiah
Old Testament
32
Hosea
Old Testament
33
Huldah
Old Testament
34
Iddo
Old Testament
35
Isaac
Old Testament
36
Isaiah
Old Testament
38
Jahaziel
Old Testament
39
Jehu
Old Testament
40
Jeremiah
Old Testament
41
Jesus
New Testament
42
Jezebel (not the Jezebel of the Old Testament)
New Testament
43
Job
Old Testament
44
Joel
Old Testament
45
John of Patmos
New Testament
46
John the Baptist
New Testament
47
Jonah
Old Testament
48
Joseph
Old Testament
49
Joseph, foster father of Jesus
New Testament
50
Joshua
Old Testament
51
Judas Barsabbas
New Testament
52
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
Old Testament
53
King Saul
Old Testament
54
King Solomon
Old Testament
55
Lucius of Cyrene
New Testament
56
Malachi
Old Testament
57
Manaen
New Testament
58
Mary, mother of Jesus
New Testament
59
Medad
Old Testament
60
Micah
Old Testament
61
Micaiah
Old Testament
62
Miriam
Old Testament
64
Nahum
Old Testament
65
Nathan
Old Testament
66
Noadiah
Old Testament
67
Noah
Old Testament
68
Obadiah
Old Testament
69
Oded
Old Testament
70
Paul the Apostle
Acts of the Apostles 9:20
New Testament
71
Peter
New Testament
72
Philip the Evangelist
New Testament
73
Samuel
Old Testament
74
Shemaiah
Old Testament
75
Silas
New Testament
76
Simeon Niger
New Testament
77
Simeon of Jerusalem
New Testament
78
Simon Magus
New Testament
79
The false prophet of the Book of Revelation
New Testament
80
The four daughters of Philip the Evangelist
New Testament
81
The seventy elders of Israel
Old Testament
82
Two Witnesses
New Testament
83
Urijah
Old Testament
84
Zechariah, father of John the Baptist
New Testament
85
Zechariah, son of Berechiah
Old Testament
86
Zechariah, son of Jehoiada
Old Testament
87
Zedekiah
Old Testament
88
Zephaniah
Old Testament

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