אַשָּׁף
ʼashshâph · H825 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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conjurer, enchanter, exorcist, sorcerer
Exact meaning unknown; class of persons skilled in magic and soothsaying; found in Babylon; working at the royal court
ExamplesDaniel 2:2 Then the king gave orders to call in the soothsayer priests, the conjurers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַלְכוּתkingdom, reign, kingship 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- חַרְטֹם charṭôm · H2748 · magician
- Hebrew term for Egyptian magicians/enchanters who practiced divination and magical arts, overlapping professional category with astrologers in ancient Near Eastern context
- כָּשַׁף kâshaph · H3784 · to practice sorcery, sorcerer: sorceress
- Hebrew term for practitioners of sorcery and divination, closely related professional category to astrologers in biblical taxonomy of occult practices
In the other Testament 1 word
- μάγος mágos · G3097 · a wise man and priest, a magus, magician
- Greek translation-equivalent denoting practitioners of divination and astrology, used in LXX and NT for Eastern wise men/astrologers; direct functional counterpart to אַשָּׁף (ʼashshâph, H825)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Professions001001003009
- אַשָּׁף names the astrologer or conjurer, one of the professional classes of Babylonian wise men Daniel and his companions surpassed in Nebuchadnezzar's court.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H825. ashshaph [אַשָּׁף] noun masculine conjurer, necromancer (probably Babylonian…
[אַשָּׁף] noun masculine conjurer, necromancer (probably Babylonian loan-word, Assyrian ašipu COTGloss compare DlPr 141, Aramaic אָשַׁף, ; see also Assyrian šiptu, conjuration) only plural אַשָּׁפִים Dan 1:20 (|| חַרְטֻמִּים), Dan 2:2 (|| כַּשְׂדִּים מְבַשְּׁפִים, ׳ח,).
אשׁף (√ of dubious meaning, whence 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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