Medium
אוֹבStrong’s H0178ov
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ov is the Hebrew word usually translated “necromancers”, “necromancer” and “necromancy”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.”
Meaning
- Water skin bottle
- Necromancernecromancer, one who evokes the dead · ghost, spirit of a dead one · practice of necromancy
- One that has a familiar spirit
How it's translated
- the necromancers 7
- a necromancer 2
- necromancy 2
- by necromancy 2
- necromancer 2
- like wineskins 1
- like a necromancer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 4
- Leviticus 3
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Kings 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 20:6And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
- Leviticus 20:27A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
- Deuteronomy 18:11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
- 1 Samuel 28:3Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
- 1 Samuel 28:7Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
- 1 Samuel 28:8And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
Hebrew dictionary
אוֹב ov · medium
1) water skin bottle 2) necromancer 1b) necromancer, one who evokes the dead 1c) ghost, spirit of a dead one 1d) practice of necromancy 3) one that has a familiar spirit
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “medium” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ME'DIUM, noun
plural mediums; media not being generally, though sometimes used. [Latin] In philosophy, the space or substance through which a body moves or passes to any point. Thus either is supposed to be the medium through which the planets move; air is the medium through which bodies move near the earth; water the medium in which fishes live and move; glass a medium through which light passes; and we speak of a resisting medium a refracting medium etc.
- In logic, the mean or middle term of a syllogism, or the middle term in an argument, being the reason why a thing is affirmed or denied.
- Arithmetical medium that which is equally distant from each extreme, or which exceeds the lesser extreme as much as it is exceeded by the greater, in respect of quantity, not of proportion.
- Geometrical medium is that wherein the same ratio is preserved between the first and second terms, as between the second and third.
- The means or instrument by which any thing is accomplished, conveyed or carried on.
All definitions
- The middle place or degree; the mean.
- A kind of printing paper of middle size.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.