chartom · magician

What it means

chartom (חַרְטֹם) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “magician”.

(Aramaic): one of the soothsayers of the court.

How to say it

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

1. Court diviner.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• magicians ×4
• magician ×1

Related words

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 4:9

  “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and no mystery is too hard for you, tell the visions of my dream that I saw and its interpretation.

• 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 —