Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H826
אַשָּׁף
ashshaphash-shawf'
enchanter
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼashshâph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H826is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H826
{a conjurer}
The King James renders it: astrologer.
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
ashshaph is rendered "enchanter". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Six of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:10The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
Daniel 2:10וְאָשַׁ֥ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's six uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- conjurers2
- conjurers the2
- and conjurer1
- obj. conjurers the1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַשָּׁף | ashshaph | enchanter | Uses2 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- אָֽשְׁפַיָּ֔א2
- אָֽשְׁפִ֗ין2
- וְאָשַׁ֥ף1
- לְאָ֣שְׁפַיָּ֔א1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural2ANcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)2ANcmpd/Ta
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular1AC/Ncbsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AR/Ncmpd/Ta
Daniel
six uses
The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
- וְאָשַׁ֥ףveashafconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and conjurer
Daniel answered the king, “No wise man, enchanter, medium, or magician can explain to the king the mystery of which he inquires.
- אָֽשְׁפִ֗יןʾashefinnoun · masculine pluraltagged: conjurers
When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners came in, I told them the dream, and they could not interpret it for me.
- אָֽשְׁפַיָּ֔אʾashefaiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: conjurers the
The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
- לְאָ֣שְׁפַיָּ֔אleashefaiya'preposition + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: obj. conjurers the
There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the days of your father he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners. Your own father, the king,
- אָֽשְׁפִ֗יןʾashefinnoun · masculine pluraltagged: conjurers
Now the wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this inscription and interpret it for me, but they could not give its interpretation.
- אָֽשְׁפַיָּ֔אʾashefaiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: conjurers the
The letters
Gematria 381· 1,101 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.