Strong's Hebrew · H3786

H3786 kashshâph

כַּשָּׁף

kash-shawf'

sorcerer

Looking for Greek G3786 óphelos? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3786. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

kashshâph appears once in Scripture, in Jeremiah 27:9. In the Doxa app, open that verse, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a magician

In the King James Version

sorcerer.

Derivation

from H3784 (כָּשַׁף);

Appears 1 time in Scripture

Jeremiah 27:9

“But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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