Acts 16:16
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
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Soothsaying
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Acts 16:16
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
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μαντεύομαι
manteúomai · mant-yoo'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to divine, i.e. utter spells (under pretense of foretelling
Strong's KJV usage: :--by soothsaying.
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And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
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soothsaying
SOOTH'SAYING, noun The foretelling of future events by persons without divine aid or authority, and thus distinguished form prophecy.
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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