Strong's #178: 'owb (pronounced obe)

from the same as 1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name); properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar):--bottle, familiar spirit.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ôb

1) water skin bottle

2) necromancer

1b) necromancer, one who evokes the dead

1c) ghost, spirit of a dead one

1d) practice of necromancy

3) one that has a familiar spirit

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from the same as H1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father' s name)

Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

 

Leviticus 19:31: "Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled"
Leviticus 20:6: "that after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after"
Leviticus 20:27: "that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death:"
Deuteronomy 18:11: "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer."
1 Samuel 28:3: "even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land."
1 Samuel 28:7: "Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants"
1 Samuel 28:7: "him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor."
1 Samuel 28:8: "and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name"
1 Samuel 28:9: "how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore"
2 Kings 21:6: "and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness"
2 Kings 23:24: "Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations"
1 Chronicles 10:13: "not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire"
2 Chronicles 33:6: "and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil"
Job 32:19: "vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles."
Isaiah 8:19: "you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:"
Isaiah 19:3: "and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards."
Isaiah 29:4: "shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground,"