Word

μάγος

mágos · G3097 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

a wise man and priest, a magus

A person noted for unusual capacity of understanding based upon astrology (such persons were regarded as combining both secular and religious aspects of knowledge and understanding)

Examples
Matthew 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,
Matthew 2:7 Then Herod secretly called for the magi and determined from them the exact time the star appeared.
Matthew 2:16 Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent men and killed all the boys who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity who were two years old or under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.
magician

(Derivative of μαγεύω ‘to practice magic,’) One who practices magic and witchcraft

Examples
Acts 13:6 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,
Acts 13:8 But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἘλύμαςElymas 1
ἀνήρman, husband 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

παραγίνομαιto come 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

καλέωto call, to name 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

παράfrom, with, beside 2
ὑπόby, under 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

A wise man and priest, a magus32.40: This sense denotes a member of a professional class of priestly wise men skilled in astrology and the interpretation of dreams. Matthew 2:1 introduces such figures, “behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem.”
Magician53.97: This sense denotes a practitioner of magic arts, a distinct usage from the priestly-class sense above. Acts 13:8 states that “Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.”

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μάγοςmágos · G3097μαγεία mageía · G3095 · to practice magic, to employ witchcraft, magic · 1×μαγεύω mageúō · G3096 · to practice magic, to employ witchcraft, magic · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μαγου, ὁ (Hebrew מַג, plural מָגִים; a word of Indo-Germanic origin; cf. Gesenius,…

μαγου, ὁ (Hebrew מַג, plural מָגִים; a word of Indo-Germanic origin; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, ii., p. 786; J. G. Müller in Herzog viii., p. 678; (Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word; but the word is now regarded by many as of Babylonian origin; see Schrader, Keilinschriften as above with 2te Aufl., p. 417ff)); from Sophocles and Herodotus down; the Sept. Dan 2:2 and several times in Theod. ad Dan. for אַשָׁף; a magus; the name given by the Babylonians (Chaldaeans), Medes, Persians, and others, to the wise men, teachers, priests, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, augurs, soothsayers, sorcerers etc.; cf. Winers RWB, under the word; J. G. Müller in Herzog, the passage cited, pp. 675-685; Holtzmann in Schenkel iv., p. 84f; (BB. DD., under the word ). In the N. T. the name is given:
1. to the oriental wise men (astrologers) who, having discovered by the rising of a remarkable star (see ἀστήρ, and cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i. 209ff) that the Messiah had just been born, came to Jerusalem to worship him: Mt 2:1, Mt 2:7, Mt 2:16.
2. to false prophets and sorcerers: Acts 13:6, Acts 13:8,cf. 8:9,11.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Capacity for Understanding4 occurrences Magic2 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0