Topic
Soothsayer
7 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Joshua 13:22Easton
¶ Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
- 1 Samuel 6:2Easton
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
- Isaiah 2:6Easton
¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
- Isaiah 3:2Easton
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
- Daniel 2:27Easton
Daniel 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 5:7Easton
The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and…
- Micah 5:12Easton
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 7 references
One who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem, a “diviner,” as rendered 1 Sam. 6:2; rendered “prudent,” Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12 (Heb. yonenim, i.e., “diviners of the clouds”) the word is used of the Chaldean diviners who studied the clouds. In Dan. 2:27; 5:7 the word is the rendering of the Chaldee gazrin, i.e., “deciders” or “determiners”, here applied to Chaldean astrologers, “who, by casting nativities from the place of the stars at one’s birth, and by various arts of computing and divining, foretold the fortunes and destinies of individuals.”, Gesenius, Lex. Heb. (See SORCERER.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 0 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → See SORCERY
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.