kasam · practice divination

What it means

kasam (קָסַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “practice divination”.

Try to learn what is hidden by casting lots or by signs.

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. Trying to know hidden things by signs or spirits; forbidden.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• diviners ×7
• divine ×5
• divination ×3
• diviner ×2
• Please ×1
• divining ×1
• practice ×1
• practiced divinations ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×6
• Micah×3
• Zechariah×1

• Deuteronomy 18:10

  There shall not be found among you anyone who makes pass his son or his daughter through the fire, anyone who practices divination, a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

• Deuteronomy 18:14

  For these nations that you are dispossessing listen to soothsayers and to diviners; but as for you, YHWH your Elohim has not allowed you to do so.

• Joshua 13:22

  And Balaam son of Beor, the diviner, the sons of Israel killed with the sword, in addition to their slain.

• 1 Samuel 6:2

  And the Philistines called for the priests and for the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of YHWH? Let us know with what we should send it to its place.”

• 1 Samuel 28:8

  Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went, and two men with him; they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Please divine for me by calling up the dead, and bring up for me the one I name to you.”

• 2 Kings 17:17

  They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and practiced divinations and read omens, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, to provoke him to anger.

• Isaiah 3:2

  mighty man and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder,

• Isaiah 44:25

  who frustrates the signs of the empty talkers, and drives mad diviners; who turns the wise backward, and their knowledge he makes foolish;

• Jeremiah 27:9

  And you, do not listen to your prophets, or to your diviners, or to your dreams, or to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who are saying to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

• Jeremiah 29:8

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Do not let your prophets deceive you, who are among you, and your diviners, and do not listen to your dreams that you cause them to dream.

• Ezekiel 13:9

  And my hand will be against the prophets who see emptiness and who divine lies; in the inner council of my people they will not be, and in the register of the house of Israel they will not be written, and into the soil of Israel they will not enter; and you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 13:23

  therefore you will not see emptiness nor divine divination any more, and I will deliver my people from your hand, and you will know that I am YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 21:21

  For the king of Babylon has stopped at the crossroads, at the head of the two roads, to practice divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver.

• Ezekiel 21:23

  And it will be to them like an empty divination in their eyes; oaths of oaths they have; but he brings to remembrance iniquity, so that they may be seized.”

• Ezekiel 21:29

  while they see for you emptiness, while they divine for you a lie, to put you on the necks of the wicked mortally wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

• Ezekiel 22:28

  And her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing emptiness and divining for them a lie, saying, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH,’ when YHWH has not spoken.

• Micah 3:6

  “Therefore it will be night for you, without vision, and it will be dark for you, without divination; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them.

• Micah 3:7

  And the seers will be ashamed, and the diviners will be embarrassed, and they will cover the mustache, all of them, for there is no answer from Elohim.”

• Micah 3:11

  Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets divine for silver; and on YHWH they lean, saying, “Is not YHWH in our midst? No evil will come upon us.”

• Zechariah 10:2

  For the teraphim have spoken wickedness, and the diviners have seen a lie, and they speak dreams of falsehood; they comfort with emptiness. Therefore they have set out like sheep; they wander afflicted because there is no shepherd.

And 1 more times.