Hebrew verb · H3784
כָּשַׁף
kashaphkaw-shaf'
to practice sorcery
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâshaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3784is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3784
properly, to whisper aspell, i.e. to inchant or practise magic
The King James renders it: sorcerer, (use) witch(-craft).
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
kashaph is rendered "to practice sorcery". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 7:11But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
Exodus 7:11וְלַֽמְכַשְּׁפִ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and to the sorcerers2
- a sorceress1
- and a sorcerer1
- and he practiced sorcery1
- on the sorcerers1
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- בַּֽמְכַשְּׁפִים֙1
- וְֽכִשֵּׁ֔ף1
- וְלַֽמְכַשְּׁפִ֑ים1
- וְלַֽמְכַשְּׁפִים֙1
- וּמְכַשֵּֽׁף׃1
- מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural2HC/Rd/Vprmpa
- Hc/Vpq3ms1Hc/Vpq3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vprmsa
- preposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural1HRd/Vprmpa
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singular1HVprfsa
Exodus
two uses
But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
- וְלַֽמְכַשְּׁפִ֑יםvelamkhashefimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and to the sorcerers
You must not allow a sorceress to live.
- מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖הmekhashefahverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: a sorceress
Deuteronomy
one use
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
- וּמְכַשֵּֽׁף׃umekhashefconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: and a sorcerer
2 Chronicles
one use
He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
- וְֽכִשֵּׁ֔ףvekhishefHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he practiced sorcery
Daniel
one use
So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to explain his dreams. When they came and stood before the king,
- וְלַֽמְכַשְּׁפִים֙velamkhashefimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and to the sorcerers
Malachi
one use
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- בַּֽמְכַשְּׁפִים֙bamkhashefimpreposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: on the sorcerers
The letters
Gematria 400· 1,120 mispar gadol
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.