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# necromancer

noun

«necromancer» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

The Torah forbids this practice, along with other kinds of magic, as part of the ways of the nations that Israel was told to avoid.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the ban as teaching trust in God alone, not in the dead or in spirits, to know what will come.

### Meaning

A person who tries to speak with the dead to learn secrets or the future. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/necromancer/#m1)

### Examples

- or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer. (Torah DEU.18.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/necromancer/#x1)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «necromancer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/necromancer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«necromancer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/necromancer.html) on Mova free.