Sorcery
כֶּ֫שֶׁףStrong’s H3785kesheph (ke-sheph)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kesheph is the Hebrew word usually translated “sorceries your”, “sorceries” and “sorceries her”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?”
Meaning
- Sorcery, witchcraft
How it's translated
- sorceries your 2
- sorceries 2
- and sorceries her 1
- by sorceries her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Micah 1
- Nahum 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
- Micah 5:12And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
- Nahum 3:4Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Hebrew dictionary
כֶּ֫שֶׁף kesheph · sorcery
sorcery, witchcraft
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sorcery” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOR'CERY, noun
Magic; enchantment; witchcraft; divination be the assistance of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits. Adder's wisdom I have learn'd to fence my ears against the sorceries.
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.