Lexicon ashshaph: a conjurer, necromancer Original Word: אַשָּׁפִיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: ashshaph Phonetic Spelling: (ash-shawf') Short Definition: conjurers NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitiona conjurer, necromancer NASB Translationconjurers (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ אַשָּׁף] noun masculine conjurer, necromancer (probably Babylonian loan-word, Assyrian ašipu COT Gloss compare Dl Pr 141, Aramaic אָשַׁף,  ; see also Assyrian šiptu, conjuration) only plural אַשָּׁפִים Daniel 1:20 ("" חַרְטֻמִּים), Daniel 2:2 ("" ׳ח, מְבַשְּׁפִים, כַּשְׂדִּים). אשׁף (√ of dubious meaning, whence following)
Strong's astrologer From an unused root (probably meaning to lisp, i.e. Practice enchantment); a conjurer -- astrologer. |
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