Divination
נַ֫חַשׁStrong’s H5173nachash (na-chash)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nachash is the Hebrew word usually translated “enchantment” and “omens”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!”
Meaning
- Divination, enchantment
How it's translated
- enchantment 1
- omens 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נַ֫חַשׁ nachash · divination
divination, enchantment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “divination” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIVINATION, noun
[Latin, to foretell. See Divine.]
- The act of divining; a foretelling future events, or discovering things secret or obscure, by the aid of superior beings, or by other than human means.
- Conjectural presage; prediction.
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.