King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H825
Transliteration: ashshaph
Phonetic Spelling: (ash-shawf')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a conjurer, necromancer
Meaning: a conjurer, necromancer
Word Summary
ashshaph: a conjurer, necromancer
Original Word: אַשָּׁףTransliteration: 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 אַשָּׁפִים Daniel 1:20 ("" חַרְטֻמִּים), 2:2 ("" כַּשְׂדִּים מְבַשְּׁפִים, ׳ח,).
אשׁף (√ of dubious meaning, whence following)