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Strong’s H6049 · Hebrew

עָנַן

ʻânan · aw-nan'

Origin a primitive root; to cover; used only as a denominative from עָנָן (H6051), to cloud over;

Meaning figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic

In the King James Version [idiom] bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe(-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.

In 11 verses of the King James Version

  1. Genesis 9:14And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
  2. Leviticus 19:26Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
  3. Deuteronomy 18:10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
  4. Deuteronomy 18:14For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
  5. Judges 9:37And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.
  6. 2 Kings 21:6And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
  7. 2 Chronicles 33:6And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
  8. Isaiah 2:6Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
  9. Isaiah 57:3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
  10. Jeremiah 27:9Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
  11. Micah 5:12And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

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.

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