Lexical Summary ashshaph: a conjurer, necromancer Original Word: אַשָּׁףTransliteration: ashshaph Phonetic Spelling: (ash-shawf') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a conjurer, necromancer Meaning: a conjurer, necromancer Strong's Concordance astrologer From an unused root (probably meaning to lisp, i.e. Practice enchantment); a conjurer -- astrologer. Brown-Driver-Briggs H825. ashshaph [אַשָּׁף] noun masculine conjurer, necromancer (probably Babylonian loan-word, Assyrian ašipu COTGloss compare DlPr 141, Aramaic אָשַׁף, ; see also Assyrian šiptu, conjuration) only plural אַשָּׁפִים Daniel 1:20 ("" חַרְטֻמִּים), 2:2 ("" כַּשְׂדִּים מְבַשְּׁפִים, ׳ח,). אשׁף (√ of dubious meaning, whence following) |