Strong's #7080: qacam (pronounced kaw-sam')

a primitive root; properly, to distribute, i.e. determine by lot or magical scroll; by implication, to divine:--divine(-r, -ation), prudent, soothsayer, use (divination).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qâsam

1) (Qal) to practice divination, divine

1a) of diviners of the nations, Balaam

1b) of false prophets of Israel

1c) prohibited

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

 

Deuteronomy 18:10: "or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,"
Deuteronomy 18:14: "hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God"
Joshua 13:22: "Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword"
1 Samuel 6:2: "And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark"
1 Samuel 28:8: "by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom"
2 Kings 17:17: "and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do"
Isaiah 3:2: "of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,"
Isaiah 44:25: "That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward,"
Jeremiah 27:9: "to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters,"
Jeremiah 29:8: "of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither"
Ezekiel 13:9: "the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly"
Ezekiel 13:23: "more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people"
Ezekiel 21:21: "at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted"
Ezekiel 21:23: "And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance"
Ezekiel 21:29: "While they see vanity unto thee, while they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain,"
Ezekiel 22:28: "them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith"
Micah 3:6: "night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down"
Micah 3:7: "Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips;"
Micah 3:11: "thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD,"
Zechariah 10:2: "the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false"