Spell
חֶ֫בֶרStrong’s H2267chever (che-ver)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chever is the Hebrew word usually translated “spell”, “spells” and “spells your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”
Meaning
- Association, company, band
- Shared, association, society
- A magician, charmer, spell
How it's translated
- a spell 1
- spells 1
- spells your 1
- in spells your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 58:5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
- Isaiah 47:9But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
- Isaiah 47:12Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Hebrew dictionary
חֶ֫בֶר chever · spell
1) association, company, band 2) shared, association, society 3) a magician, charmer, spell
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spell” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPELL, noun
[The verb primarily signifies to throw or drive, and is probably formed on the root of Latin pello. In some of the application of spell we observe the sense of turn. We observe the same in throw, warp, cant, etc.]
- A story; a tale.
- A charm consisting of some words of occult power.
- A turn of work; relief; turn of duty.
- In New England, a short time; a little time. [Not elegant.]
All definitions and other forms of “spell”
- A turn of gratuitous labor, sometimes accompanied with presents.
SPELL, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive spelled or spelt.
- To tell or name the letters of a word, with a proper division of syllables, for the with a proper division of syllables, for the purpose of learning the pronunciation.
- To write or print with the proper letters; to form words by correct orthography.
- To take another's place or turn temporarily in any labor or service. [This is a popular use of the word in New England.]
- To charm; as spelled with words of power.
- To read; to discover by characters or marks; with out; as, to speel out the sense of an author.
- To tell; to relate; to teach. [Not in use.]
SPELL, verb intransitive
- To form words with the proper letters, either in reading or writing.
- To read.
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.