Kesheph כֶּ֫שֶׁף
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| כֶּ֫שֶׁף | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | kesheph |
| Strong's number | H3785 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | sorcery |
| Occurrences | 6 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | Isaiah (2) |
Kesheph (Hebrew כֶּ֫שֶׁף, Strong's H3785) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “sorcery”. It occurs 6 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
sorcery, witchcraft
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | witchcrafts (4), sorceries (2) |
|---|---|
| BSB | sorceries (3), witchcraft (1), sorcery (1), her witchcraft (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Kesheph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 9:22And 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?When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
Isaiah
- 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.These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
- 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.So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
Micah
- Micah 5:12And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
Nahum
- 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.because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).