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Strong's #7080 - קָסַם
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- (Qal) to practice divination, divine
- of diviners of the nations, Balaam
- of false prophets of Israel
- prohibited
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2718) mxq (קסמ QSM) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Divine
V) mxq (קסמ QSM) - Divine: To practice divination. KJV (20): (vf: Paal) divine, diviner, use, divination, prudent, soothsayer - Strongs: H7080 (קָסַם)
Nm) mxq (קסמ QSM) - Divination: KJV (11): divination, witchcraft, divine - Strongs: H7081 (קֶסֶם)
hm) mxqm (מקסמ MQSM) - Divination: KJV (2): divination - Strongs: H4738 (מִקְסָם)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Imperfect, 3 masculine plural יִקְסְמוּ 2 Kings 17:17, יִקְסֹ֑מוּ Micah 3:11; 2 feminine singular תִּקְסַמְנָה Ezekiel 13:23; Imperative feminine singular קָסֳמִי 1 Samuel 28:8 Qr (Kt קסומי); Infinitive construct קְסֹם Micah 3:8 (Buhl קֶסֶם), קְסָםֿ Ezekiel 21:26; Ezekiel 21:34 קְסָ֯וםֿ Ezekiel 21:28 (read קֶסֶם Co Buhl), especially Participle קֹסֵם Deuteronomy 18:10; Isaiah 3:2, etc.; —
1 of diviners of the nations, Balaam, Joshua 13:22 (D), Philist 1 Samuel 6:2 ("" כהנים), Babylonian Isaiah 44:25 ("" חכמים) Ezekiel 21:26 compare שׁוא׳ק Ezekiel 21:28 (but read קֶסֶם), + Isaiah 2:6 (insert probably קֹסְמִים, > קֶסֶם, or מִקְסָם; see קֶדֶם 1 b); of Can. necromancers בָּאוֺב 1 Samuel 28:8; "" מְעֹנְנִים Deuteronomy 18:14; of Ammonites כָּזָכ׳ק Ezekiel 21:34 (+ ל person).
2 false prophets of Israel "" חזה Micah 3:6 (? קֶסֶם; "" חזון) Micah 3:7; Isaiah 3:2 (+ נביא; compare Isaiah 3:3), "" נביאים Jeremiah 27:9; Jeremiah 29:8, בְּכֶסֶף Micah 3:11, "" חזה שׁקר Zechariah 10:2; "" ׃חזה שׁוא׳ק קֶסֶם Ezekiel 13:23 (but see קֶסֶם), כָּזָב׳ק Ezekiel 13:9; Ezekiel 22:28,+ Ezekiel 13:6 (read וְקָֽסְמוּ or [Co Berthol] infinitive absolute וְקָסֹם, Vrss. Toy).
3קְסָמִים ׳ק prohibited Deuteronomy 18:10; 2 Kings 17:17
קָסַם fut. יִקְסֹם to divine, to practise divination, as a verb used always of the false prophets of the Hebrews, Deuteronomy 18:10, 14 Deuteronomy 18:14; 2 Kings 17:17; Micah 3:6, Micah 3:7, 11 Micah 3:11; Isaiah 3:2 of evokers of the dead, 1 Samuel 28:8 and of the prophets of strange nations, as of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 6:2 of Balaam, Joshua 13:22. (To this answers the Syr. ܩܨܰܡ to divine. The primary idea appears to be that of cutting; compare قسم, גָּזַם, a notion which is applied to divination, compare גְּזַר No. 2.)
Derivatives, מִקְסָם and