Magician
חַרְטֹםStrong’s H2749chartom (char-tom)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chartom is the Aramaic word usually translated “magicians”, “magicians the” and “magician”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.”
Meaning
- Magician, magician-astrologer
How it's translated
- magicians 2
- magicians the 2
- magician 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:27In contextDaniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
- Daniel 4:7In contextThen came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 4:9In contextO Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 5:11In contextThere is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
Aramaic dictionary
חַרְטֹם chartom · magician
magician, magician-astrologer Aramaic of char.tom (חַרְטֹם "magician" H2748)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.