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Strong's #3784: kashaph (pronounced kaw-shaf')

a primitive root; properly, to whisper a spell, i.e. to inchant or practise magic:--sorcerer, (use) witch(-craft).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâshaph

1) (Piel) to practice witchcraft or sorcery, use witchcraft

1a) sorcerer, sorceress (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Exodus 7:11: "also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also"
Exodus 22:18: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. suffer a witch to live."
Deuteronomy 18:10: "divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,"
2 Chronicles 33:6: "of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought"
Daniel 2:2: "to call the magicians, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams."
Malachi 3:5: "and I will be witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress"









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