H3049 - יִדְּעֹנִי (yiddᵉʻônîy)

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

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

from 3045; properly, a knowing one; specifically, a conjurer; (by impl) a ghost

KJV Usage: wizard

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

יִדְּעֹנִי (yid.d.o.ni) — spiritist. 1) a knower, one who has a familiar spirit 1a) a familiar spirit, soothsayer, necromancer (meton)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

יִדְּעֹנִי (H3049)

noun m · ידע

| ≈ אֹוב

spirit of the dead = spirit of a dead person, ► consulted by fortune-tellers; ≈ an activity forbidden in the law of Moses

LEV 19:31 · LEV 20:6 · LEV 20:27 · DEU 18:11 · 2KI 21:6 · 2CH 33:6 · ISA 8:19 · ISA 19:3

Professions

one who consults the spirits of the dead = person who is said to be able to communicate with spirits of the deceased

1SA 28:3 · 1SA 28:9 · 2KI 23:24

Timothy L. Wilt; Enio R. Mueller

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

יִדְּעֹנִי n.m. familiar spirit (prop. either as knowing, wise (acquianted with secrets of unseen world); or as intimate acquaintance of soothsayer) base