Strong’s G4436 · Greek
Πύθων
Pýthōn · poo'-thone
Origin from Πυθώ (the name of the region where Delphi, the seat of the famous oracle, was located);
Meaning a Python, i.e. (by analogy, with the supposed diviner there) inspiration (soothsaying)
In the King James Version divination.
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- Acts 16:16And 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:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.