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Bewitch (1 Occurrence)

Galatians 3:1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified? (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Thesaurus
Bewitch (1 Occurrence)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BEWITCH. ... See DIVINATION; EVIL EYE; SORCERY;
SUPERSTITION. Jacob W. Kapp. Multi-Version Concordance Bewitch (1 Occurrence). ...
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Witch (2 Occurrences)
... versiera. 6. (n.) The stormy petrel. 7. (vt) To bewitch; to fascinate; to
enchant. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. EN-DOR, WITCH OF. ...
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Bewilderment (7 Occurrences)

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Overlook (7 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly. 4. (vt) To
look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate. ...
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Thoughtless (17 Occurrences)
... Galatians 3:1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth --
before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? ...
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Described (16 Occurrences)
... Galatians 3:1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth --
before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? ...
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Paradise (6 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A churchyard or cemetery. 6. (vt) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity;
to entrance; to bewitch. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. PARADISE. ...
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Bewitched (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Bewitch. Multi-Version Concordance
Bewitched (3 Occurrences). Acts 8:9 But there was a certain ...
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Spell (2 Occurrences)
... 9. (vt) To tell; to relate; to teach. 10. (vt) To put under the influence of a spell;
to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. 11. ...
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Witchcraft (8 Occurrences)
... The verb "bewitch" occurs in Acts 8:9, 11 the King James Version (of Simon Magus
bewitching the people) and in Galatians 3:1 ("O foolish Galatians, who hath ...
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Greek
940. baskaino -- to slander, hence by ext. to bewitch
... to bewitch. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: baskaino Phonetic Spelling:
(bas-kah'-ee-no) Short Definition: I give the evil eye to, fascinate, bewitch ...
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1839. existemi -- to displace, to stand aside from
... lost His senses (1). amaze, make astonished, bewitch, wonder. From ek and histemi;
to put (stand) out of wits, ie Astound, or (reflexively ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
BEWITCH

be-wich' (existemi): There are two Greek words in the New Testament translated "bewitch." The one given above (Acts 8:9, 21 the King James Version "bewitched," the Revised Version (British and American) "amazed") has reference to the work of Simon Magus. It means "to be out of one's mind," "to astonish," "to overwhelm with wonder." The other word, baskaino (Galatians 3:1), means "to fascinate by false representation." It is by this means the apostle complains they have been led to accept a teaching wholly contrary to the gospel of Christ. Both these words reveal to us something of the difficulty the early teachers had to eradicate the idea so widely held by the Jews and Egyptians especially, that there were certain powers, dark and mysterious, which by certain occult forces they could control. For a long time this had to be contended with as one of the corrupt practices brought into the church by the converts, both from Judaism and heathenism. These words have a reference to the evil eye which for centuries was, and even today is, an important factor in the life of the people of the East. 1 Timothy 6:20 is a reference to this thought and explains the word "science" (the King James Version) as there used.

See DIVINATION; EVIL EYE; SORCERY; SUPERSTITION.

Jacob W. Kapp

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. t.) To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

2. (v. t.) To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.

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