Bible Dictionary: Sorceress

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) A female sorcerer.

Strong's Hebrew

3784. kashaph -- to practice sorcery
... Word Origin denominative verb from kesheph Definition to practice sorcery NASB Word
Usage practiced sorcery (1), sorcerer (1), sorcerers (3), sorceress (1). ...
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6049a. anan -- to practice soothsaying
... diviners' (1), fortune-tellers (1), practice witchcraft (1), practiced witchcraft
(2), practices witchcraft (1), soothsayers (2), soothsaying (1), sorceress (1 ...
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Library

On Kings.
... Part I."Exegetical. On Kings. The question is raised, whether Samuel rose
by the hand of the sorceress or not. And if, indeed, we ...
/.../hippolytus/the extant works and fragments of hippolytus/on kings.htm

The Minne-Songs
... Kundria the sorceress, a terrible messenger from the Sangreal, rides into the hall,
tells the knights that they and their Round Table are dishonoured by the ...
/.../winkworth/christian singers of germany/the minne-songs.htm

The Fulfilment
... There was no alternative. It was death whatever they did, unless, in truth, this
splendid sorceress was indeed the Voice of the Risen Prince. ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter xxiii the fulfilment.htm

Further Diplomacy
... words. Masanath felt her flesh crawl and her soft hair take on life. Not
all the words of the sorceress were intelligible. At first ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxvi further diplomacy.htm

The Evil one Wailed "Where Now, is There a Place for Me to Flee to ...
... 6. Gehazi, with the staff that brought to life the dead, was unable to raise the
child. And how could the famous prophet have been brought up by the sorceress? ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn xlii the evil one.htm

Simon's Explanation of the Three Last Books of the Pentateuch.
... into beasts. But a faithful man, and beloved by that sorceress, is, he says,
discovered through that milk-like and divine fruit. In ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xi simons explanation of the.htm

What Varro Says of the Incredible Transformations of Men.
... In support of this story, Varro relates others no less incredible about that most
famous sorceress Circe, who changed the companions of Ulysses into beasts ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 17 what varro says of.htm

The End of Self-Will
... stands the towering form of Saul with a little ring of his children and retainers
round him, the words he had heard last night in the sorceress' tent unnerving ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the end of self-will.htm

'Lying Vanities'
... The sorceress draws us within her charmed circle by lying words and illusory charms,
and when she has so secured the captives, her mask is thrown off and her ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/lying vanities.htm

The Margin of the Nile
... "Idler!" said Kenkenes. "Nay," she answered with a smile, "I am at work"learned
work.". "Gathering witch-weeds for an incantation, sorceress?". "Not so. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xiv the margin of.htm

Thesaurus

Sorceress (2 Occurrences)
... (n.) A female sorcerer. Multi-Version Concordance Sorceress (2 Occurrences). Exodus
22:18 "You shall not allow a sorceress to live. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Witch (2 Occurrences)
... Occurs only in Exodus 22:18, as the rendering of mekhashshepheh, the feminine form
of the word, meaning "enchantress" (RV, "sorceress"), and in Deuteronomy 18 ...
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Witchcraft (8 Occurrences)
... twice in the King James Version, namely, (1) in Exodus 22:18, "Thou shalt not suffer
a witch (the Revised Version (British and American) "a sorceress") to live ...
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Magician (5 Occurrences)
... (n.) One skilled in magic; a sorcerer; one who practices the black art; an enchanter;
a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer. Int. ...
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Sorcerers (8 Occurrences)

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Sorceries (11 Occurrences)

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Whore (14 Occurrences)
... pit. (KJV DBY). Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress,
the seed of the adulterer and the whore. (KJV YLT). Ezekiel ...
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Adulterer (6 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Isaiah 57:3 "But draw near here, you
sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute. ...
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Adulterers (10 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, ye
sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot. (See NIV). ...
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Silas (22 Occurrences)
... At Philippi, Lydia, a seller of purple, was converted, and with her they made their
abode; but the exorcism of an evil spirit from a sorceress brought upon ...
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Bible Concordance

Sorceress (2 Occurrences)

Exodus 22:18 "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 57:3 "But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Sorceress

Related Terms

Witch (2 Occurrences)

Witchcraft (8 Occurrences)

Magician (5 Occurrences)

Sorcerers (8 Occurrences)

Sorceries (11 Occurrences)