Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #825 - אַשָּׁף ashshaph

Original Word:	אַשָּׁף
Transliteration:	ashshaph
Phonetic Spelling:	(ash-shawf')
Definition:	a conjurer, necromancer
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

astrologer

From an unused root (probably meaning to lisp, i.e. Practice enchantment); a conjurer -- astrologer.

Englishman's Concordance

1) necromancer, conjurer
2) (TWOT) astrologer, enchanter, exorcist
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root (probably meaning to lisp, i.e. practice enchantment)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 181

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[אַשָּׁף] noun masculineconjurer, necromancer (probably Babylonian loan-word, Assyrian ašipu COT^Gloss compare Dl^{Pr 141}, Aramaic אָשַׁף,

; see also Assyrian šiptu, conjuration) only plural אַשָּׁפִיםDaniel 1:20 ("" חַרְטֻמִּים), Daniel 2:2 ("" ׳ח, מְבַשְּׁפִים, כַּשְׂדִּים).

אשׁף (√ of dubious meaning, whence following)

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 825. אַשָּׁפִים (ashshaph) — 2 Occurrences

Daniel 1:20
HEB:כָּל־ הַֽחַרְטֻמִּים֙ הָֽאַשָּׁפִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּכָל־
NAS: the magicians [and] conjurers who
KJV: than all the magicians [and] astrologers that [were] in all his realm.
INT: all the magicians conjurers who all

Daniel 2:2
HEB:לִקְרֹ֨א לַֽחַרְטֻמִּ֜ים וְלָֽאַשָּׁפִ֗ים וְלַֽמְכַשְּׁפִים֙ וְלַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים
NAS: in the magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers
KJV: the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers,
INT: to call the magicians the conjurers the sorcerers and the Chaldeans

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