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Strong's #825: 'ashshaph (pronounced ash-shawf')

from an unused root (probably meaning to lisp, i.e. practice enchantment); a conjurer:--astrologer.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ashshâph

1) necromancer, conjurer

2) (TWOT) astrologer, enchanter, exorcist

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root (probably meaning to lisp, i.e. practice enchantment)



Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

Daniel 1:20: "better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm."
Daniel 2:2: "commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king"









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