אַשָּׁף
ʼashshâph · H826 · Aramaic · 6 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 2:10 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 2 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
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲלַלbring in 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 4
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Near synonyms 1 word
- חַרְטֹם charṭôm · H2748 · magician
- Hebrew חַרְטֹם refers to magicians or sacred scribes, particularly those in Egyptian or Babylonian contexts (Genesis 41, Exodus 7-9, Daniel 1-2). While broader than astrologer specifically, it overlaps significantly with אַשָּׁף in denoting practitioners of occult arts in royal courts, and the two terms appear in similar contexts in Daniel.
In the other Testament 1 word
- μάγος mágos · G3097 · a wise man and priest, a magus, magician
- Greek μάγος is the standard LXX and NT translation equivalent for practitioners of divination and astrology, including the מְכַשְּׁפִים and related terms in Daniel where אַשָּׁף (ʼashshâph, H826) אַשָּׁף appears. While μάγος has a broader semantic range covering various types of magi, it serves as the natural Greek equivalent for the Aramaic astrologer term.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Daniel 4:7 recounts that Nebuchadnezzar related his dream, “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.”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H826. ashaph אָשַׁף (K§ a) noun masculine conjurer, enchanter (probably Babylonian…
אָשַׁף (K§ a) noun masculine conjurer, enchanter (probably Babylonian Loan-word; so Biblical Hebrew אַשָּׁף); — absolute ׳אDan 2:10; plural absolute אָֽשְׁפִין Dan 2:27; Dan 5:11, emphatic אָֽשְׁפַיָא Dan 4:4; Dan 5:7, Dan 5:15.
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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