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Hebrew verb · H7080

קָסַם

qasamkaw-sam'

to divine

20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: qâçam

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7080is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7080

properly, to distribute, i.e. determine by lot or magical scroll; by implication, to divine

The King James renders it: divine(-r, -ation), prudent, soothsayer, use (divination).

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

qasam is rendered "to divine". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 18:10Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first 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,

Deuteronomy 18:10קֹסֵ֣ם

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Six of the word's twenty uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and diviner1
  • and diviners1
  • and diviners your1
  • and divining1
  • and the diviners1
  • and they divined1
  • and to the diviners1
  • and who divine1
  • as divines1
  • divine1
  • diviners1
  • diviners your1

and 8 more, 20 uses in all

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.

קָסַסqasasto stripUses1

The words it stands beside

All 20, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 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

  • בִּקְסָם־1
  • הַקּוֹסֵ֑ם1
  • הַקֹּ֣סְמִ֔ים1
  • וְהַקּֽוֹסְמִים֙1
  • וְהַקֹּסְמִ֣ים1
  • וַיִּקְסְמ֥וּ1
  • וְלַקֹּֽסְמִים֙1
  • וְקֹסֵ֥ם1
  • וְקֹֽסְמֵיכֶ֑ם1
  • וְקֹסְמִ֖ים1
  • וְקֹסְמִ֥ים1
  • יִקְסֹ֑מוּ1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)4HR/Vqcc
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2HC/Td/Vqrmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2HC/Vqrmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Vqrmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Vqrmpc/Sp2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqrmsa
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vqrmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine plural1HVqi2fp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HVqrmpa

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

    Deuteronomy 18:10

    • קֹסֵ֣םkosemverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: divines
  • Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

    Deuteronomy 18:14

    • קֹסְמִ֖יםkosemimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: diviners

Joshua

one use
  • The Israelites also killed the diviner Balaam son of Beor along with the others they put to the sword.

    Joshua 13:22

    • הַקּוֹסֵ֑םhakosemthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the diviner

1 Samuel

two uses
  • the Philistines summoned the priests and diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how to send it back to its place.”

    1 Samuel 6:2

    • וְלַקֹּֽסְמִים֙velakosemimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and to the diviners
  • So Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes, and he set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I name.”

    1 Samuel 28:8

    • קָֽסֳמִיkasomi-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: divine

2 Kings

one use
  • They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

    2 Kings 17:17

    • וַיִּקְסְמ֥וּvaiyiksemuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they divined

Isaiah

two uses
  • the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,

    Isaiah 3:2

    • וְקֹסֵ֥םvekosemconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and diviner
  • who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

    Isaiah 44:25

    • וְקֹסְמִ֖יםvekosemimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and diviners

Jeremiah

two uses
  • But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

    Jeremiah 27:9

    • קֹֽסְמֵיכֶ֗םkosemeikhemverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: diviners your
  • For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.

    Jeremiah 29:8

    • וְקֹֽסְמֵיכֶ֑םvekosemeikhemconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and diviners your

Ezekiel

six uses
  • My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 13:9

    • וְהַקֹּסְמִ֣יםvehakosemimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and who divine
  • therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will deliver My people from your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”

    Ezekiel 13:23

    • תִקְסַ֣מְנָהtiksamnahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: you will divine
  • For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

    Ezekiel 21:21

    • לִקְסָם־liksom-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to divine
  • It will seem like a false omen to the eyes of those who have sworn allegiance to him, but it will draw attention to their guilt and take them captive.

    Ezekiel 21:23

    • כִּקְסָםkiksom-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as divines
  • while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

    Ezekiel 21:29

    • בִּקְסָם־biksom-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when divine
  • Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.

    Ezekiel 22:28

    • וְקֹסְמִ֥יםvekosemimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and divining

Micah

three uses
  • Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

    Micah 3:6

    • מִקְּסֹ֑םmikesompreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from divining
  • Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”

    Micah 3:7

    • הַקֹּ֣סְמִ֔יםhakosemimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those divine
  • Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

    Micah 3:11

    • יִקְסֹ֑מוּyiksomuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they divine

Zechariah

one use
  • For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

    Zechariah 10:2

    • וְהַקּֽוֹסְמִים֙vehakosmimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and the diviners

The letters

Gematria 200· 760 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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