Greek noun (feminine) · G5331
φαρμακεία
pharmakeiafar-mak-i'-ah
generally, the use of medicine, drugs or spells (Xen.).; (a) poisoning (Plut., Polyb.)
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pharmakeía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5331is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5331
medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: sorcery, witchcraft.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pharmakeia is rendered "generally, the use of medicine, drugs or spells (Xen.).; (a) poisoning (Plut., Polyb.)". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Galatians, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "generally, the use of medicine, drugs or spells (Xen.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Galatians 5:20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
Galatians 5:20φαρμακεία
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Galatians.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: generally, the use of medicine, drugs or spells (Xen.)., and (a) poisoning (Plut., Polyb.).
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| generally, the use of medicine, drugs or spells (Xen.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGalatians 5:20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, |
| (a) poisoning (Plut., Polyb.)__(b) sorcery, witchcraft | Tagged as
| WhereGalatians 5:20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- φαρμακεία1
- φαρμακείᾳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Galatians
one use
idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
- φαρμακείαpharmakeianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sorcery
Revelation
one use
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
- φαρμακείᾳpharmakeianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: sorcery
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.