Exo 7:11, Deu 18:10-12, 14, Jer 14:14, 23:16, 25, 32, 27:14-16, 29:8 | TSK | STEP | wise men. sorcerers.{Mechashshaphim,} probably from the Arabic {kashapha,} to discover, reveal, signifies diviners, or those who pretended to reveal futurity, to discover things lost, or to find hidden treasures. they also. enchantments.By the word {lahatim,} from {lahat,} to burn, may be meant such incantations as required lustral fires, fumigations, etc.

Exodus 7:11

wise men.

Ge 41:8,38,39; Isa 19:11,12; 47:12,13; Da 2:2,27; 4:7-9; 5:7,11

sorcerers.{Mechashshaphim,} probably from the Arabic {kashapha,} to discover, reveal, signifies diviners, or those who pretended to reveal futurity, to discover things lost, or to find hidden treasures.

they also.

22; 8:7,18; De 13:1-3; Mt 24:24; Ga 3:1; Eph 4:14; 2Th 2:9

Re 13:11-15

enchantments.By the word {lahatim,} from {lahat,} to burn, may be meant such incantations as required lustral fires, fumigations, etc.

Deuteronomy 18:10-12

maketh.

12:31; Le 18:21-30; 20:2-5; 2Ki 16:3; 17:17; 21:6; 2Ch 28:3

Ps 106:37,38; Jer 19:4-6; 32:35

that useth divination.The precise import of the terms here used to express these unhallowed practices cannot be clearly ascertained: he that useth divination, {kosaim, kesamim,} seems a general term for the various species after specified; observer of times, {meonain,} one who pretends to foretell by the clouds, planets, etc.; enchanter {menachesh,} a diviner, either by means of serpents, or by inspecting the entrails of beasts, the flight of birds, etc.; a witch, {mecashsheph,} one who used magical fumigations, etc.; a charmer, {chover chaver,} one who uses spells, or a peculiar conjunction of words, or tying knots, etc.; a consulter with familiar spirits, {shoel ov,} a pythoness; a wizard, {yidoni,} a cunning man; necromancer, {doresh el hammaithim} one who seeks enquiries of the dead.

Ex 22:18; Le 19:26,31; 20:26,27; 1Sa 28:3,7,9; 1Ch 10:13; 2Ch 33:6

Isa 8:19,20; 47:13; Ac 19:19; Ga 5:20

or a necromancer.

1Sa 28:11-14

9:4; Le 18:24,27