Magician
חַרְטֹםStrong’s H2748chartom (char-tom)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chartom is the Hebrew word usually translated “magicians”, “magicians of” and “soothsayer-priests”. It appears in 10 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
- Diviner, magician, astrologerengraver, writer (only in derivative sense of one possessed of occult knowledge)
How it's translated
- the magicians 4
- magicians of 2
- the soothsayer-priests 2
- diviner priests of 1
- the diviner priests 1
- on the magicians 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 6
- Genesis 2
- Daniel 2
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:2In contextThen 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.
- Genesis 41:8And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:24And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
- Exodus 7:11Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
- Exodus 7:22And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the LORD had said.
- Exodus 8:7And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
Hebrew dictionary
חַרְטֹם chartom · magician
1) diviner, magician, astrologer 1a) engraver, writer (only in derivative sense of one possessed of occult knowledge) Aramaic equivalent: char.tom (חַרְטֹם "magician" H2749)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “magician” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAGI'CIAN, noun
One skilled in magic; one that practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress.
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.