H3049 - יִדְּעֹנִי (yiddᵉʻônîy)

H3049 יִדְּעֹנִי (yiddᵉʻônîy) yid-deh-o-nee'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

spiritist

Strong's Definition

properly, a knowing one; specifically, a conjurer; (by impl) a ghost

Derivation: from H3045 (יָדַע);

KJV Usage: wizard.

TWOT Reference: 848d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) a knower, one who has a familiar spirit

1a) a familiar spirit, soothsayer, necromancer (meton)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1109

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) a knower, one who has a familiar spirit 1a) a familiar spirit, soothsayer, necromancer (meton)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

יִדְּעֹנִי yidde‛ôný̂y BDB Definition: 1) a knower, one who has a familiar spirit 1a) a familiar spirit, soothsayer, necromancer (metonymy) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H3045 Same Word by TWOT Number: 848d Total KJV Occurrences: 11

Bible Occurrences (11)

19:31 20:6 20:27

18:11

28:3 28:9

21:6 23:24

33:6

8:19 19:3

Leviticus 19:31

You must not turn to mediums [or] spiritists; do not seek them out..., or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 20:6

Whoever turns to mediums... or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person... and cut him off from his people.

Leviticus 20:27

A man or a woman... who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death.... They shall be stoned; their blood [is] upon them.

Deuteronomy 18:11

casts spells..., consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.

1 Samuel 28:3

Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.

1 Samuel 28:9

But the woman replied..., Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”

2 Kings 21:6

He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

2 Kings 23:24

Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.