חַרְטֹם
charṭôm · H2748 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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magician
Title of priest skilled in magic and soothsaying; found both in Egypt and Babylon; working at the royal court
ExamplesGenesis 41:8 Now in the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent messengers and called for all the soothsayer priests of Egypt, and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:24 and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. Then I told it to the soothsayer priests, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
Exodus 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they too, the soothsayer priests of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִצְרַיִםEgypt 3
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַלְכוּתkingdom, reign, kingship 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֵםthey, them 1
What it doesIt is the subject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 3
- יָכֹלto be able to 1
- אָמַרto say 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָרָאto call, to cry out 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- אֵלto, toward 2
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
- בin/on/with 1
- לto/for 1
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 1 entry
- Professions001001003009
- The word denotes a magician or soothsayer-priest, a professional practitioner of secret arts, as in Genesis 41:8's and Exodus 7:11's references to Egypt's soothsayer priests.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2748. chartom [חַרְטֹם] noun masculineExo 7:22 engraver, writer, only in derived sense…
[חַרְטֹם] noun masculineExo 7:22 engraver, writer, only in derived sense of one possessed of occult knowledge, diviner, astrologer, magician (probably = ם + חֶרֶט, see Di Ol§ 216, 5 Sta§§ 295, 327 a) **the fact that the word is always applied to Egyptian magicians, except Dan 2:2 (late), suggests Egyptian origin, but no agreement among Egyptologists: HarkavyJas., 1870, Mars-Avril, 169 proposes χαρ, speak + tum, hidden = teller of hidden things; WiedSamml 44 thinks Hebrew word perhaps imitating an Egyptian cher-‰em-t, he who holds the book; FC Cook'Speaker's' Comm. i. 279 proposes cher-tum = bearer of sacred words. — only plural absolute חַרְטֻמִּים Gen 41:24 Gen 41:4t.; חַרְטֻמִּם Exo 8:15; Exo 9:11; construct חַרְטֻמֵּי Gen 41:8 Gen 41:2t.; —
1 magicians of Egypt Gen 41:8 (E; || חֲכָמִים), Gen 41:24 (E), Exo 8:3; Exo 8:14; Exo 8:15; Exo 7:11 (|| מְכַשְּׁפִים חֲכָמִים,), Exo 7:22; Exo 9:11 (twice in verse) (all P).
2 magicians of Babylon Dan 2:2 (|| כַּשְׂדִּים מְכַשְּׁפִים, אַשָּׁפִים,).
II. חרט (√ of following; relation to I. חרט obscure).
חַרְטֹם noun masculine magician (Biblical Hebrew id quod, √ I. חרט); — absolute Dan 2:10; plural absolute חַרְטֻמִּין Dan 2:27; Dan 5:11; מַּיָא- Dan 4:4, Dan 4:6.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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.
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