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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Soothsayer
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5371
נֵרְגַּל שַׁרְאֶ֫צֶר
ne.re.gal shar.e.tser — Nergal-sar-ezer
A Babylonian official of Samgar, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Jer.39.3a § Nergal-sharezer = "prince of fire" chief soothsayer and a ruler in the army of Nebuchadnezzar
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6604
פְּתוֹר
pe.tor — Pethor
§ Pethor = "soothsayer" a town of Mesopotamia and the home of Balaam; located on a river
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7248
רַב־מָג
rav-mag — Rab-mag
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Jer.39.3 1) soothsayer, magician, chief soothsayer 2) Rab-mag, chief soothsayer, or chief of princes, an official of Babylonia
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4436
Πύθων
Puthōn — divining spirit
πύθων, -ωνος, ὁ 1. in cl., Python, a serpent slain by Apollo, who is hence surnamed the Pythian. 2. In Plut. (ii, 414 E), a name given to ventriloquist soothsayers (ἐγγαστρίμυθοι; cf. Lev.19:31 20:6, 27, 1Ki.28:7), and perhaps in this sense πνεῦμα πύθωνα, a python-spirit: Act.16:16.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7649
θελητής
thelētēs — a soothsayer
a soothsayer; wisher
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Historical dictionary entry
One who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem, a “diviner,” as rendered 1 Sam. 6:2; rendered “prudent,” Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12 (Heb. yonenim, i.e., “diviners of the clouds”) the word is used of the Chaldean diviners who studied the clouds. In Dan. 2:27; 5:7 the word is the rendering of the Chaldee gazrin, i.e., “deciders” or “determiners”, here applied to Chaldean astrologers, “who, by casting nativities from the place of the stars at one’s birth, and by various arts of computing and divining, foretold the fortunes and destinies of individuals.”, Gesenius, Lex. Heb. (See SORCERER.)
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.