Python (6 Occurrences)

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Acts 16:16 And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a certain female slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who brought much profit to her masters by prophesying. (DBY YLT)

Leviticus 20:27 And if there be a man or a woman in whom is a spirit of Python or of divination, they shall certainly be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood is upon them. (DBY)

Deuteronomy 18:11 or a charmer, or one that inquireth of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consulteth the dead. (DBY)

1 Samuel 28:7 Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman that has a spirit of Python, that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has a spirit of Python at En-dor. (DBY)

1 Samuel 28:8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other garments, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and he said, I pray thee, divine to me by the spirit of Python, and bring me him up whom I shall name to thee. (DBY)

1 Chronicles 10:13 And Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah which he kept not, and also for having inquired of the spirit of Python, asking counsel of it; (DBY)

Thesaurus

Python (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus
Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. ...PYTHON. ...
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Qirhareseth

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Unfaithful (58 Occurrences)
... which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah which he kept
not, and also for having inquired of the spirit of Python, asking counsel of it ...
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Unfaithfulness (27 Occurrences)
... which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah which he kept
not, and also for having inquired of the spirit of Python, asking counsel of it ...
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Inquireth (7 Occurrences)
... Inquireth (7 Occurrences). Deuteronomy 18:11 or a charmer, or one that inquireth
of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consulteth the dead. (DBY). ...
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Female (95 Occurrences)
... Acts 16:16 And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a certain female
slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who brought much profit to her ...
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Familiar (35 Occurrences)
... thee"). Edward Bagby Pollard. SPIRIT, FAMILIAR. See FAMILIAR; DIVINATION;
PYTHON. Multi-Version Concordance Familiar (35 Occurrences). ...
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Employment (5 Occurrences)
... Acts 16:16 And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having
a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by ...
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Prophesying (58 Occurrences)
... Acts 16:16 And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a certain female
slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who brought much profit to her ...
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Pyrrhus (1 Occurrence)

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Greek

4436. puthon -- Python, a mythical serpent slain by Apollo ...
... Python, a mythical serpent slain by Apollo, divination. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: puthon Phonetic Spelling: (poo'-thone) Short Definition ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PYTHON

pi'-thon: Occurs only in Acts 16:16, where the Revised Version (British and American) reads, "a certain maid having a spirit of divination (margin "a spirit, a Python") met us." Puthon, or Putho, is the oldest name of Delphi (or the country about Delphi), in which was situated the famous Delphic Oracle. Consequently "Pythian spirit" came to be the generic title of the supposed source of inspiration of diviners, including the slave-girl of the account in Acts. Exactly what facts underlie the narrative it is rather hard to say, but it is evident that the girl was sincere in her conviction that she spoke with Pythian inspiration. Probably she represents some hysterical type, of none too strong mentality, whose confused utterances were taken as coming from some supernatural power. Impressed by Paul's personality, she followed him about, and, when his command came, was in a state of mind that had prepared her to obey it. The narrative, incidentally, gives an interesting sidelight on a society in which a girl with hysteria had a greater commercial value than she had after her cure.

See DIVINATION.

Burton Scott Easton

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.

2. (n.) A diviner by spirits.