1) (Qal) to practice divination, divine 1a) of diviners of the nations, Balaam 1b) of false prophets of Israel 1c) prohibited
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H7080 — קָסַם
qa.sam · to divine · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Deuteronomy 18:10 · קֹסֵ֣םthere is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer,Deuteronomy 18:14 · קֹסְמִ֖יםfor these nations whom thou art possessing, unto observers of clouds, and unto diviners, do hearken; and thou—not so hath Jehovah thy God suffered thee.Joshua 13:22 · הַקּוֹסֵ֑םAnd Balaam, son of Beor, the diviner, have the sons of Israel slain with the sword, among their wounded ones.1 Samuel 6:2 · וְלַקֹּֽסְמִים֙and the Philistines call for priests and for diviners, saying, ‘What do we do to the ark of Jehovah? let us know wherewith we send it to its place?’1 Samuel 28:8 · קָֽסֳמִיAnd Saul disguiseth himself and putteth on other garments, and goeth, he and two of the men with him, and they come in unto the woman by night, and he saith, ‘Divine, I pray thee, to me by the familiar spirit, and cause to come up to me him whom I say unto thee.’2 Kings 17:17 · וַיִּקְסְמ֥וּand cause their sons and their daughters to pass over through fire, and divine divinations, and use enchantments, and sell themselves to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him;Isaiah 3:2 · וְקֹסֵ֥םHero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,Isaiah 44:25 · וְקֹסְמִ֖יםMaking void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish.Jeremiah 27:9 · קֹֽסְמֵיכֶ֗ם‘And ye, ye do not hearken unto your prophets, and unto your diviners, and unto your dreamers, and unto your observers of clouds, and unto your sorcerers who are speaking unto you, saying, Ye do not serve the king of Babylon,—Jeremiah 29:8 · וְקֹֽסְמֵיכֶ֑םFor thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Let not your prophets who are in your midst, and your diviners, lift you up, nor hearken ye unto their dreams, that ye are causing them to dream;Micah 3:6 · מִקְּסֹ֑םTherefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day.Micah 3:7 · הַקֹּ֣סְמִ֔יםAnd ashamed have been the seers, And confounded have been the diviners, And covered their lip have all of them, For their is no answer, O God.Micah 3:11 · יִקְסֹ֑מוּHer heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, ‘Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.’Zechariah 10:2 · וְהַקּֽוֹסְמִים֙Because the teraphim did speak iniquity, And the diviners have seen a falsehood, And dreams of the vanity they speak, With vanity they give comfort, Therefore they have journeyed as a flock, They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.