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Word Summary
kesheph: sorcery
Original Word: כֶּשֶׁף
Transliteration: kesheph
Phonetic Spelling: (keh'-shef)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: sorcery
Meaning: sorcery
Strong's Concordance
sorcery, witchcraft

From kashaph; magic -- sorcery, witchcraft.

see HEBREW kashaph

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3785. kesheph

[כֶּ֫שֶׁף‎] noun masculine2 Kings 9:22 sorcery, only

plural (Assyrian kišpu, id.); — כְּשָׁפִים‎ Micah 5:11; Nahum 3:4; suffix כְּשָׁפַיִךְ‎ Isaiah 47:9, 12; כְּשָׁפֶיהָ‎ Nahum 3:4; 2 Kings 9:22; — sorceries:

1 literal כ ׳וְהִכְרַתִּי מִיָּדֶיךָ‎ Micah 5:11, said of Israel; כ ׳רֹב‎ Isaiah 47:9, 12 "" חֲבָרַיִךְ‎, said of Babylon.

2 figurative of seductive and corrupting influences: of Jezebel 2 Kings 9:22 "" זְנוּנִים‎; of Nineveh personified as harlot Nahum 3:4 ("" id.), called כ ׳בַּעֲלַת‎ 3:4 (following זְנוּנֵי זוֺנָהמֵרֹב‎).





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