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Necromancer

Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1875

דָּרַשׁ

da.rash — to seek

1) to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place) 1a2) to consult, enquire of, seek 1a2a) of God 1a2b) of heathen gods, necromancers 1a3) to seek deity in prayer and worship 1a3a) God 1a3b) heathen deities 1a4) to seek (with a demand), demand, require 1a5) to investigate, enquire 1a6) to ask for, require, demand 1a7) to practice, study, follow, seek with application 1a8) to seek with care, care for 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God) 1b2) to be sought, be sought out 1b3) to be required (of blood)

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H178

אוֹב

ov — medium

1) water skin bottle 2) necromancer 1b) necromancer, one who evokes the dead 1c) ghost, spirit of a dead one 1d) practice of necromancy 3) one that has a familiar spirit

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3049

יִדְּעֹנִי

yid.d.o.ni — spiritist

1) a knower, one who has a familiar spirit 1a) a familiar spirit, soothsayer, necromancer (meton)

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H826

אָשַׁף

ash.shaph — enchanter

conjurer, enchanter, (CLBL) necromancer Aramaic of ash.shaph (אַשָּׁף "enchanter" H0825)

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H825

אַשָּׁף

ash.shaph — enchanter

1) necromancer, conjurer, 2) (TWOT) astrologer, enchanter, exorcist Aramaic equivalent: ash.shaph (אָשַׁף "enchanter" H0826)

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Historical dictionary entry

(Deut. 15:11), i.e., “one who interrogates the dead,” as the word literally means, with the view of discovering the secrets of futurity (comp. 1 Sam. 28:7). (See DIVINATION.)

Scripture references

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.

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