Enchanter
אַשָּׁףStrong’s H0825ashshaph (ash-shaph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashshaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “conjurers”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.”
Meaning
- Necromancer, conjurer
- (TWOT) astrologer, enchanter, exorcist
How it's translated
- the conjurers 1
- and the conjurers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
אַשָּׁף ashshaph · enchanter
1) necromancer, conjurer, 2) (TWOT) astrologer, enchanter, exorcist Aramaic equivalent: ash.shaph (אָשַׁף "enchanter" H0826)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “enchanter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ENCH'ANTER, noun
One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; one who has spirits or demons at his command; one who practices enchantment, or pretends to perform surprising things by the agency of demons.
- One who charms or delights.
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.