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מָ֑ג
- Transliteration
- Rab-Mâg
- Pronunciation
- rab-mawg'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 4
Glosses
soothsayer, magian, Rab-mag.
Lexicon definition
Rab-Mag, a Babylonian official
SUBJECT · Complete Bible Study
Soothsayer
One who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called (Josh. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- H7248, H1505, H6049, H7080
- Hebrew
- מָ֑ג · Rab-Mâg
Strong’s and original-language information
H7248
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
גְּזַר
- Transliteration
- gᵉzar
- Pronunciation
- ghez-ar'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 6
Glosses
cut out, soothsayer.
Lexicon definition
to quarry
determine
determine
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
עָנַן
- Transliteration
- ʻânan
- Pronunciation
- aw-nan'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 11
Glosses
[idiom] bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe(-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.
Lexicon definition
figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
קָסַם
- Transliteration
- qâçam
- Pronunciation
- kaw-sam'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 20
Glosses
divine(-r, -ation), prudent, soothsayer, use (divination).
Lexicon definition
properly, to distribute, i.e. determine by lot or magical scroll
by implication, to divine
by implication, to divine
Greek lexical coverage
No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry
The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.
Complete dictionary entries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Soothsayer
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 [602]SORCERER.)
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Soothsayer
Indexed occurrences: 1
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Strong's Concordance
Soothsayers
Indexed occurrences: 1
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All Scripture references12 references
Leviticus 2
Isaiah 3
Jeremiah 2
Daniel 1
Micah 1
Acts 1
2 Corinthians 1
Revelation 1
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
SOOTHSAYER
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for SOOTHSAYER.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Soothsayers
Indexed references: 9
Scripture references:
Source: Nave's Topical Bible · View data sources
Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
- Historical Reference: topics
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Topic
SOOTHSAYER
Nave’s Topical Bible references for SOOTHSAYER.
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Soothsayer
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 [602]SORCERER.)
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Wise men
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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