Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀστρολόγος
- Transliteration
- astrologos
- Part of speech
- G:N-M
- Indexed occurrences
- 0
Glosses
astrologer
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Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
astrologer
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
astrologer
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
astrologer.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
astrologer.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
engraver, writer, diviner, astrologer, magician, magician.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 1
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Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 9
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Dictionary
(Dan. 1:20; 2:2, 10, 27, etc.) Heb. ashshaph', an enchanter, one who professes to divine future events by the appearance of the stars. This science flourished among the Chaldeans. It was positively forbidden to the Jews (Deut. 4:19; 18:10; Isa. 47:13).
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Occurs only in Amos 5:26 (R.V. marg., "shrine"). The LXX. translated the word by Rhephan, which became corrupted into Remphan, as used by Stephen (Acts 7:43; but R.V., "Rephan"). Probably the planet Saturn is intended by the name. Astrologers represented this planet as baleful in its influences, and hence the Phoenicians offered to it human sacrifices, especially children.
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(Isa. 47:13), those who pretend to tell what will occur by looking upon the stars. The Chaldean astrologers "divined by the rising and setting, the motions, aspects, colour, degree of light, etc., of the stars."
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The eleven stars (Gen. 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:13); seen in the east at the birth of Christ, probably some luminous meteors miraculously formed for this specific purpose (Matt. 2:2-10); stars worshipped (Deut. 4:19; 2 Kings 17:16; 21:3; Jer. 19:13); spoken of symbolically (Num. 24:17; Rev. 1:16, 20; 12:1). (See [608]ASTROLOGERS.)
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Mentioned in Dan. 2:12 included three classes, (1) astrologers, (2) Chaldeans, and (3) soothsayers. The word in the original (hakamim) probably means "medicine men. In Chaldea medicine was only a branch of magic. The "wise men" of Matt. 2:7, who came from the East to Jerusalem, were magi from Persia or Arabia.
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