כַּשָּׁף
kashshâph · H3786 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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enchanter, magician
A person who has made it their profession to help humans gain control over (other) humans, animals, or deities through rituals and incantations
ExamplesJeremiah 27:9 ‘And as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers who talk to you, saying, “You will not serve the king of Babylon.”
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֶםyour 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵלto, toward 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- חַרְטֹם charṭôm · H2748 · magician
- Practitioner of secret/magical arts, frequently paired with other practitioners of occult arts in biblical texts; distinct from כַּשָּׁף but overlapping in the domain of magical practice
In the other Testament 1 word
- μάγος mágos · G3097 · a wise man and priest, a magus, magician
- Greek translation-equivalent for one who practices magic or sorcery; used in LXX and NT for practitioners of magical arts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Professions001001003009
- This word denotes a sorcerer, one who practices the forbidden trade of sorcery, so it belongs among terms for trades and professions.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3786. kashshaph [כַּשָּׁף] noun masculine sorcerer, only plural suffix (Assyrian…
[כַּשָּׁף] noun masculine sorcerer, only plural suffix (Assyrian kassapu, id.; kassaptu, sorceress); — וְאֶלעְֹֿנַנֵיכֶם חֲלֹמֹתֵיכֶם וְאֶל וְאֶלקֹֿסְמֵיכֶם אֶלנְֿבִיאֵיכֶם וְאֶלכַּֿשָּֽׁפֵיכֶ֑ם אַלתִּֿשְׁמְעוּ,
II. כשׁף (√ of following).
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
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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