יִדְּעֹנִי
yiddᵉʻônîy · H3049 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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spirit of the dead
Spirit of a dead person, consulted by fortune-tellers; an activity forbidden in the law of Moses
ExamplesLeviticus 19:31 ‘Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:6 ‘As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the prostitute with them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 20:27 ‘Now a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; they have brought their own deaths upon themselves.’”
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one who consults the spirits of the dead
Person who is said to be able to communicate with spirits of the deceased
Examples1 Samuel 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.
1 Samuel 28:9 But the woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, that he has eliminated the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why are you then setting a trap for my life, to bring about my death?”
2 Kings 23:24 Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums, the spiritists, the household idols, the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might fulfill the words of the Law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָגָהto utter, to meditate, to moan 1
- צָפַףto twitter 1
- רָאָהto see 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 2
- בָּעַרto burn, to purge 1
- כָּרַתto cut off, to make (a covenant) 1
- סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵלto, toward 5
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
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- יִדְּעֹנִי names a wizard or soothsayer, one whose forbidden trade is consulting familiar spirits, condemned alongside mediums (Leviticus 19:31, 20:6, 27).
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3049. yiddeoni יִדְּעֹנִי noun masculine familiar spirit (properly either as knowing,…
יִדְּעֹנִי noun masculine familiar spirit (properly either as knowing, wise (acquainted with secrets of unseen world), Ew vielwisserisch; or as intimate acquaintance of soothsayer, see RSJPh xiv. 1885. 127) — absolute יִדְּעֹנִי Deu 18:11 Deu 18:2t.; plural יִדְּעֹנִים 1Sa 28:3 1Sa 28:6t.; מִן הַיִּדְּעֹנִי 1Sa 28:9, read מִן הַיִּדְּעֹנִים (see ᵐ5 Th We Klo Dr); familiar spirit, always || אֹבוֺת אוֺב, 1Sa 28:3, 1Sa 28:9; Isa 8:19; Isa 19:3; 2Ki 21:6 (אוֺב עשׂה; || עוֺנֵן נִחֵשׁ,) = 2Ch 33:6; 2Ki 23:24; Lev 19:31; Lev 20:6, Lev 20:27 (all H; on last two compare Act 16:16 and DrDeu 18:11), Deu 18:11(|| אוֺב + אֶלהַֿמֵּתִים דֹּרֵשׁ).
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.
Sources
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