ye lay snares for words
(catch at words, talk without knowledge)? so
Castle JDMich
and most, but sense strange;
Vrss transl.
end
, so
Thes
al.
(expl.
קנצי
[very
dub.
] as Aramaic), read then
קֵץ
(with
sg. vb
., after
Ö
),
Me Bi Siegf D
u, and
del.
עַד־אָנָה
D
u.
• קְנָת S 7079 GK 7875 n.pr.loc. Κααθ, Κα(α)ναθ , E. of Jordan Nu 32:42 (JE) 1 Ch 2:23 ; perhaps Ḳanawat on W. slope of Hauran mountains ( Buhl Geogr. 252).
קסם
(
√ of foll.; appar. orig.
divide, assign
(deity). Arabic
قَسَمَ
(qasama) divide, distribute
, x.
get a part allotted to oneself
, especially by drawing lots [with headless arrows] at a sanctuary (
cf.
especially
Ez 21:26
,
27
);
IV
.
أَقْسَمَ
(
˒aqsama
)
swear;
v.
also Ethiopic
˜˜˜
(
qasama
)
IV.
use divination
, so
å
קְסַם
, Syriac
ܩܨܰܡ
(
qṣam
);
קִיסְמָא
divination;
see especially
RS
JPhil. xiii (1885), 276 ff.
,
We
Skizzen iii. 127 f.167;
Heid.
2. 132ff.
Dr
Dt 18:10
)
.
•
קֶ˜סֶם
S
7081
TWOT
2044a
GK
7877
n.
[
m.
]
divination
;—
abs.
ק׳
Nu 23:23
+,
קָ˜סֶם
Ez 21:2
6;
cstr.
קֶסֶם
13:
6;
pl.
קְסָמִים
Dt 18:10
+;—
1.
of the nations: Balaam,
Nu 23:23
(poem in JE;
||
נַחַשׁ
;
c.
ב
against;
as
acc. cogn.
לִקְסָם־ק׳
Ez 21:2
6;
ק׳
as instr. of divination
בִּימִינֹו
v
2
7; so of elders of Moab and Midian,
קְסָמִים בְּיָדָם
,
Nu 22:7
(
E
).—
Is 2:6
v.
[
קָסַם
].
2.
of false proph.
ק׳ כָּזָב
Ez 13:6
(but
v.
[
קָסַם
]);
ק׳
as
acc. cogn.
Ez 13:23
(
< Co Berthol Krae
כָּזָב
as
v
9 21:3
4;
22:28
);
ק׳ אֱלִיל
(so
Gf
for
MT
וֶאֱלִו˜ל
)
Je 14:14
(all
||
חזה שׁוא
or
שׁקר
);
קֹסֵם קְסָמִים
prohibited
Dt 18:10 2 K 17:17
; reprobated
1 S 15:23
(poem;
||
תרפים
).
3.
in good sense
מֶלֶךְ ק׳ עַל שִׂפְתֵי
Pr 16:10
(king’s lips as oracle).
•
[
קָסַם
S
7080
TWOT
2044
GK
7876
]
vb.
denom.
practise divination
;—
Qal
Impf.
3
mpl.
יִקְסְמוּ
2 K 17:1
7,
יִקְסֹ˜מוּ
Mi 3:1
1;
2
fs.
תִּקְסַמְנָה
Ez 13:23
;
Imv. fs.
קָסֳמִי
1 S 28:8
Qr
(
Kt
קסומי
);
Inf. cstr.
קְסֹם
Mi 3:8
(
Buhl
Castle Castell. transl. translate (translated, translation); rarely = transitive. Me A. Merx.
Bi G. Bickell. Siegf C. Siegfried. RS W. Robertson Smith.
JPhil. Journal of Philology (Engl.).