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# כַּשָּׁף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3786

**sorcerer** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sorcerer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3786/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּשָּׁף: n.m. sorcerer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3786/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sorcerer, only pl. sf. (Assyrian kaššapu, id.; kaššaptu, sorceress);—אַל־תִּשְׁמְעוּ אֶל־נְבִיאֵיכֶם וְאֶל־קֹסְמֵיכֶם וְאֶל חֲלֹמֹתֵיכֶם וְאֶל־עֹנֲנֵיכֶם וְאֶל־כַּשָּֽׁפֵיכֶ֑ם Je 27:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: sorcerers (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 27:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.27.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.27.9/#tree)

וְ֠אַתֶּם אַל־תִּשְׁמְע֨וּ אֶל־נְבִיאֵיכֶ֜ם וְאֶל־קֹֽסְמֵיכֶ֗ם וְאֶל֙ חֲלֹמֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וְאֶל־עֹֽנְנֵיכֶ֖ם וְאֶל־כַּשָּׁפֵיכֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֞ם אֹמְרִ֤ים אֲלֵיכֶם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹ֥א תַעַבְד֖וּ אֶת־מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* and you do.not listen to prophets your and to diviners your and to dreams your and to soothsayers your and to sorcerers your who they \[are\].saying to you (cmp) not you.will.serve (et) the.king of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying: Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3786.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3786/): 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).