Leviticus 19:31
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
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Familiar
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Isaiah 29:4
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
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5 occurrences in 4 verses.
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שָׁלוֹם
shâlôwm · shaw-lome'
1 times translated as this KJV form229 total Strong's occurrences
safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
Strong's KJV usage: × do, familiar, × fare, favour, friend, × great, (good) health, (× perfect, such as be at) peace(-able, -ably), prosper(-ity, -ous), rest, safe(-ty), salute, welfare, (× all is, be) well, × wholly.
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Strong's first: Psalms 41:9Strong's last: Psalms 41:9
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Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
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Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
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Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
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And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
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And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
English meaning and historical usage.
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familiar
FAMIL'IAR, adjective famil'yar. [Latin familiaris, familia, family, which see.]
1. Pertaining to a family; domestic.
2. Accustomed by frequent converse; well acquainted with; intimate; close; as a familiar friend or companion.
3. Affable; not formal or distant; easy in conversation.
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
4. Well acquainted with; knowing by frequent use. Be familiar with the scriptures.
5. Well known; learned or well understood by frequent use. Let the scriptures be familiar to us.
6. Unceremonious; free; unconstrained; easy. The emperor conversed with the gentleman in the most familiar manner.
7. Common; frequent and intimate. By familiar intercourse, strong attachments are soon formed.
8. Easy; unconstrained; not formal. His letters are written in a familiar style.
He sports in loose familiar strains.
9. Intimate in an unlawful degree.
A poor man found a priest familiar with his wife.
FAMIL'IAR, noun
1. An intimate; a close companion; one long acquainted; one accustomed to another by free, unreserved converse.
All my familiars watched for my halting. Jeremiah 20:10.
2. A demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at a call. But in general we say, a familiar spirit.
3. In the court of Inquisition, a person who assists in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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