STRONGS NUMBER H825


Word Summary
ashshaph: a conjurer, necromancer
Original Word: אַשָּׁף
Transliteration: ashshaph
Phonetic Spelling: (ash-shawf')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a conjurer, necromancer
Meaning: a conjurer, necromancer
Strong's Concordance
astrologer

From an unused root (probably meaning to lisp, i.e. Practice enchantment); a conjurer -- astrologer.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H825. ashshaph

[אַשָּׁף‎] noun masculine conjurer, necromancer (probably Babylonian loan-word, Assyrian ašipu COTGloss compare DlPr 141, Aramaic אָשַׁף‎, ; see also Assyrian šiptu, conjuration) only plural אַשָּׁפִיםDaniel 1:20 ("" חַרְטֻמִּים‎), 2:2 ("" כַּשְׂדִּים מְבַשְּׁפִים, ׳ח,‎).

אשׁף‎ (√ of dubious meaning, whence following)