חַרְטֹם
charṭôm · H2749 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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Magician
The title of a priest skilled in magic and soothsaying, found both in Egypt and Babylon and working at the royal court
ExamplesDaniel 2:10 The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is no person on earth who could declare the matter to the king, because no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any soothsayer priest, sorcerer, or Chaldean.
Daniel 2:27 Daniel answered before the king and said, “As for the secret about which the king has inquired, neither wise men, sorcerers, soothsayer priests, nor diviners are able to declare it to the king.
Daniel 4:7 “Then the soothsayer priests, the sorcerers, the Chaldeans, and the diviners came in and I related the dream to them, but they could not make its interpretation known to me.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲלַלbring in 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- רַבcaptain 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- אַשָּׁף ʼashshâph · H825 · conjurer, enchanter, exorcist
- Designation for practitioners of magic arts, especially prominent in Daniel's lists of Babylonian wise men alongside חַרְטֹם; both terms denote professional practitioners of occult arts in royal courts
- כָּשַׁף kâshaph · H3784 · to practice sorcery, sorcerer: sorceress
- General term for one who practices sorcery or magic; overlaps semantically with חַרְטֹם as a practitioner of magical arts, though כַּשָּׂף may carry stronger negative connotations in Israelite legal contexts
- כָּשַׁף kâshaph · H3784 · to practice sorcery, sorcerer: sorceress
- Participial form denoting one who practices sorcery; semantically overlaps with חַרְטֹם as a designation for practitioners of magical arts
In the other Testament 1 word
- μάγος mágos · G3097 · a wise man and priest, a magus, magician
- Greek term for magician/wise man; the standard LXX rendering of חַרְטֹם in Exodus and Daniel, referring to Egyptian and Babylonian magicians who practiced divination and interpreted dreams
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Professions001001003009
- Daniel 2:27 has Daniel answer the king, “as for the secret about which the king has inquired, neither wise men, sorcerers, soothsayer priests, nor diviners are able to declare it to the king.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
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
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
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