ἐξορκιστής
exorkistḗs · G1845 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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exorcist, one driving out evil spirits
One who drives out evil spirits, usually by invoking supernatural persons or powers or by the use of magic formulas
ExamplesActs 19:13 But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits, saying, “I order you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!”
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Ἰουδαῖοςa Jew, Jewish 1
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Exorcist, one driving out evil spirits53.103
- This noun denotes one who practices the expulsion of evil spirits, used of the itinerant Jewish exorcists at Ephesus who attempted to use the name of Jesus over the demon-possessed — "some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits" (Acts 19:13).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐξορκιστου, ὁ (ἐξορκίζω); 1. he who exacts an oath of another. 2. an exorcist, i. e. one…
1. he who exacts an oath of another.
2. an exorcist, i. e. one who employs a formula of conjuration for expelling demons: Acts 19:13. (Josephus, Antiquities 8, 2, 5; Lucian, epigr. in Anthol. 11,427; often in the church Fathers.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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