Strong's Greek · G3132

μαντεύομαι

manteúomai

by soothsaying

Definition

to divine, i.e. utter spells (under pretense of foretelling

Derivation

from a derivative of G3105 (μαίνομαι) (meaning a prophet, as supposed to rave through inspiration);

Appears 1 time in Scripture

Acts 16:16

One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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