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# כֶּשֶׁף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3785

**sorcery** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sorcery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3785/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫שֶׁף: n.m. sorcery pl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3785/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 2 K 9:22 sorcery, only pl. (Assyrian kišpu, id.);—כְּשָׁפִים Mi 5:11 Na 3:4; sf. כְּשָׁפַיִךְ Is 47:9, 12; כְּשָׁפֶיהָ Na 3:4 2 K 9:22;—sorceries: lit. וְהִכְרַתִּי כ׳ מִיָּדֶיךָ Mi 5:11, said of Isr.; רֹב כ׳ Is 47:9, 12 (‖ חֲבָרַיִךְ), said of Babylon. fig. of seductive and corrupting influences: of Jezebel 2 K 9:22 (‖ זְנוּנִים); of Nineveh personif. as harlot Na 3:4 (‖ id.), called בַּעֲלַת כ׳ v 4 (following מֵרֹב זְנוּנֵי זוֹנָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sorceries (3); your sorceries (2); of sorceries (1).

## In the verses

[Micah 5:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.11/#tree)

וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י כְשָׁפִ֖ים מִיָּדֶ֑ךָ וּֽמְעוֹנְנִ֖ים לֹ֥א יִֽהְיוּ־לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.cut.off sorceries from hand your and soothsayers not they.will.belong to you

*JPS 1917:* And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers;

[Nahum 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.4/#tree)

מֵרֹב֙ זְנוּנֵ֣י זוֹנָ֔ה ט֥וֹבַת חֵ֖ן בַּעֲלַ֣ת כְּשָׁפִ֑ים הַמֹּכֶ֤רֶת גּוֹיִם֙ בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָ וּמִשְׁפָּח֖וֹת בִּכְשָׁפֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] abundance of.\[the\].prostitution(s) of.a.prostitute good of.grace a.mistress of.sorceries \[who\] sells nations by prostitution(s) her and clans by sorceries her

*JPS 1917:* Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her harlotries, and families through her witchcrafts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3785.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3785/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).