אַשָּׁף
ashaf · enchanter
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H826 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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ashaf (אַשָּׁף) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “enchanter”.
(Aramaic): one who uses spells.
How to say it
a·shaf
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- One who casts spells.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- enchanters ×5
- enchanter ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Daniel 2:10
The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, “There is no man on the dry land who can declare the king’s matter, because no king, great and ruling, has asked a thing like this of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.
- Daniel 2:27
Daniel answered before the king and said, “The mystery that the king asks, no wise men, enchanters, magicians, or diviners are able to declare to the king.
- Daniel 4:7
Then there came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners; and the dream I told before them, but its interpretation they did not make known to me.
- Daniel 5:7
The king called out with strength to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners. The king answered and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Any man who reads this writing and declares to me its interpretation will be clothed with purple, and a necklace of gold will be on his neck, and as third in the kingdom he will rule.”
- Daniel 5:11
There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and in the days of your father light and insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and diviners, — your father, the king —
- Daniel 5:15
And now the wise men, the enchanters, were brought in before me that they might read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they were not able to declare the interpretation of the matter.