Sorcerer:
from the Latin sortiarius, one who casts lots, or one who tells the lot of others. (See DIVINATION.)
In Dan 2:2 it is the rendering of the Hebrew mekhashphim, i.e., mutterers, men who professed to have power with evil spirits. The practice of sorcery exposed to severest punishment (Mal 3:5; Rev 21:8; 22:15).
1 | Strong's Number: g3097 | Greek: magos |
Sorcerer:
(a) "one of a median caste, a magician:" see WISE;
(b) "a wizard, sorcerer, a pretender to magic powers, a professor of the arts of witchcraft," Act 13:6, 8, where Bar-Jesus was the Jewish name, Elymas, an Arabic word meaning "wise." Hence the name Magus, "the magician," originally applied to Persian priests. In the Sept., only in Dan 2:2, 10, of the "enchanters," RV (AV, "astrologers"), of Babylon. The superior Greek version of Daniel by Theodotion has it also at Dan 1:20; 2:27; 4:7; 5:7, 11, 15.
2 | Strong's Number: g5333 | Greek: pharmakos |
Sorcerer:
SEE [DIVINATION].
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