Lexicon manteuomai: to divine Original Word: μαντεύομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: manteuomai Phonetic Spelling: (mant-yoo'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I practice soothsaying Definition: I divine, practice soothsaying, suggesting the fraud involved in the practice. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom mantis (a seer) Definitionto divine NASB Translationfortune-telling (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3132: μαντεύομαιμαντεύομαι; ( μάντις (a seer; allied to μανία, μαίνομαι; cf. Curtius, § 429)); from Homer down; to act as seer; deliver an oracle, prophesy, divine: Acts 16:16 μαντευομένη, of a false prophetess ( A. V. by soothsaying). The Sept. for קָסַם, to practise divination; said of false prophets. (On the heathen character of the suggestions and associations of the word, as distinguished from προφητεύω, see Trench, N. T. Synonyms, § vi.)
Strong's soothsaying. From a derivative of mainomai (meaning a prophet, as supposed to rave through inspiration); to divine, i.e. Utter spells (under pretense of foretelling -- by soothsaying. see GREEK mainomai |
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