Strong’s H825 · Hebrew
אַשָּׁף
ʼashshâph · ash-shawf'
Origin from an unused root (probably meaning to lisp, i.e. practice enchantment);
Meaning a conjurer
In the King James Version astrologer.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Daniel 1:20And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
- Daniel 2:2Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
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.