Isaiah 2:6
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
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Soothsayers
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Micah 5:12
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
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גְּזַר
gᵉzar · ghez-ar'
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to quarry; determine
Strong's KJV usage: cut out, soothsayer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 2:27Strong's last: Daniel 5:11
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ʻânan · aw-nan'
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic
Strong's KJV usage: × bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe(-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 2:6Strong's last: Micah 5:12
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H1505
Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
H1505
Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
H1505
The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
H1505
There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
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soothsayer
SOOTH'SAYER, noun A foreteller; a prognosticator; one who undertakes to foretell future events without inspiration.
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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