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Lexicon :: Strong's G3132 - manteuomai

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μαντεύομαι
Transliteration
manteuomai (Key)
Pronunciation
mant-yoo'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of μαίνομαι (G3105) (meaning a prophet, as supposed to rave through inspiration)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Trench's Synonyms: vi. προφητεύω, μαντεύομαι.

Strong’s Definitions

μαντεύομαι manteúomai, mant-yoo'-om-ahee; from a derivative of G3105 (meaning a prophet, as supposed to rave through inspiration); to divine, i.e. utter spells (under pretense of foretelling:—by soothsaying.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G3132 in the following manner: by soothsaying (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G3132 in the following manner: by soothsaying (1x).

  1. to act as a seer

    1. deliver an oracle, prophesy, divine

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μαντεύομαι manteúomai, mant-yoo'-om-ahee; from a derivative of G3105 (meaning a prophet, as supposed to rave through inspiration); to divine, i.e. utter spells (under pretense of foretelling:—by soothsaying.
STRONGS G3132:
μαντεύομαι; (μάντις (a seer; allied to μανία, μαίνομαι; cf. Curtius, § 429)); from Homer down; to act as seer; deliver an oracle, prophesy, divine: Acts 16:16 μαντευομένη, of a false prophetess (A. V. by soothsaying). The Sept. for קָסַם, to practise divination; said of false prophets. (On the heathen character of the suggestions and associations of the word, as distinguished from προφητεύω, see Trench, N. T. Synonyms, § vi.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
16:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3132 matches the Greek μαντεύομαι (manteuomai),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:10 - “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices soothsaying or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:8 -

Then Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and he said, “Divine for me, please, and bring up for me whom I shall say to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - Then they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and practiced divination and omens, and sold themselves to do what is evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking Him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - “But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your [fn]dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24 - “For there will no longer be any worthless vision or flattering divination in the midst of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6 - “They behold worthlessness and lying divination who are saying, ‘Yahweh declares,’ when Yahweh has not sent them; yet they wait for the establishing of their word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23 - therefore, you women will no longer see worthless visions or practice divination, and I will deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:21 - “For the king of Babylon stands at the [fn]parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows; he asks the [fn]household idols; he looks at the liver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - “And it will be to them like a worthless divination in their eyes; they have sworn solemn oaths. But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - while they behold for you worthless visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28 - “And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, beholding worthless visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:11 -

Her heads pronounce judgment for a bribe,

And her priests instruct for a price,

And her prophets divine for money.

Yet they lean on Yahweh saying,

“Is not Yahweh in our midst?

Evil will not come upon us.”

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