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כשׁף ( of foll.; cf. Arabic كَسَفَ (kasafa) cut off, cut up , Syriac ܐܶܬܟܰܫܰܦ ( ˒etkašap ) to pray (lit. prob. to cut oneself , v. 1 K 18:2 8); so RS JPhil. xiv. 125, 126 ZMG 1886, 723 ; according to RS כֶּשֶׁף is proposes herbs etc. shredded into a magic brew ) .

[ כֶּ˜שֶׁף S 3785 TWOT 1051a GK 4176 ] n.m. 2 K 9:22 sorcery , only pl. ( Assyrian kišpu , id. ) ;— כְּשָׁפִים Mi 5:11 Na 3: 4; sf. כְּשָׁפַיִךְ Is 47: 9, 12 ; כְּשָׁפֶיהָ Na 3:4 2 K 9:2 2;— sorceries: 1. lit. וְהִכְרַתִּי מ׳ מִיָּדֶיךָ Mi 5:1 1, said of Isr.; רֹב כ׳ Is 47: 9, 12 ( || חֲבָרַיִךְ ), said of Babylon. 2. fig. of seductive and corrupting influences: of Jezebel 2 K 9:22 ( || זְנוּנִים ); of Nineveh personif. as harlot Na 3:4 ( || id. ), called בַּעֲלַת כ׳ v 4 (following זֹונָה מֵרֹב זְנוּנֵי ).

כִּשֵּׁף vb. Pi. denom. practice sorcery ( Assyrian kašâpu , id. ) ;—Pf. 3 ms. : וְעָשָׂה אֹוב וְיִדְּעֹונִ˜י וְעֹונֵן וְנִחֵשׁ וְכִשֵּׁף 2 Ch 33:6 (of Manasseh); elsewhere only Pt. as subst. ms. sorcerer , in Israel, מְכַשֵּׁף Dt 18:10 (following קֹסֵם קְסָמִים מְעֹונֵן וּמְנַחֵשׁ ); fs. מְכַשֵּׁפָה = sorceress Ex 22:17 ( E ); mpl. מְכַשְּׁפִים Mal 3:5 (named with adulterers and false-swearers); of diviners, or astrologers in Egypt ( חַרְטֻמִּים q.v .) Ex 7:11 ( P ; || חֲכָמִים ); in Babylon Dn 2:2 ( + חַרְטֻמִּים , אַשָּׁפִים , כַּשְׂדִּים ).

[ כַּשָּׁף ] n.m. sorcerer , only pl. sf. ( Assyrian kaššapu , id.; kaššaptu , sorceress ) ;— וְאֶל־כַּשָּֽׁפֵיכֶ˜ם אֶל־נְבִיאֵיכֶם וְאֶל־קֹסְמֵיכֶם וְאֶל חֲלֹמֹתֵיכֶם וְאֶל־עֹנֲנֵיכֶם אַל־תִּשְׁמְעוּ Je 27: 9.

II.

כשׁף ( of following ) .

אַכְשָׁף S 407 GK 439 n.pr.loc. in (Northern) Canaan, with a king, Jos 11:1 ; 12:20 ; situated on the border of Asher 19:25 , Egyptian ˒A-k-sap WMM As. u. Eur. 181 ;

RS W. Robertson Smith. JPhil. Journal of Philology (Engl.). T. Nöldeke .

ZMG Zeitschrift d. deutsch. Morgenländ. Gesellschaft. WMM W. Max Müller, Asien u. Europa .


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