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Greek

4436. puthon -- Python, a mythical serpent slain by Apollo ...
... by Apollo, divination. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: puthon Phonetic
Spelling: (poo'-thone) Short Definition: a divining spirit Definition: a ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4731. maqqel -- a rod, staff
... kel-aw'}; from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate; a shoot, ie Stick
(with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining) -- rod, ((hand ...
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7080. qasam -- to practice divination
... verb from qesem Definition to practice divination NASB Word Usage conjure (1),
divination (2), divine (2), diviner (2), diviners (7), divining (1), practice (1 ...
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Library

Whether Divination by Auguries, Omens, and by Like Observations of ...
... augurari]": and he himself afterwards said to his brethren (Gn.44:15): "Know you
not that there is no one like me in the science of divining?" Therefore it is ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether divination by auguries omens.htm

The Gifts of the Present Christ
... Do we not all know how strange is the power of divining desires that goes along
with true affection, and how the power, not only of divining, but of treasuring ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/the gifts of the present.htm

The Elizabethan Reaction
... Paul's Cross, who divining his mistress's mood inveighed against the
Prayer-book, was the signal for decisive measures to begin. ...
/.../studies in the book of common prayer/chapter iii the elizabethan reaction.htm

The Greeks Claim, Without Reason, the Invention of the Arts.
... The most eminent of the Telmessians invented the art of divining by dreams; the
Carians, that of prognosticating by the stars; the Phrygians and the most ...
/.../tatian/tatians address to the greeks/chapter i the greeks claim without.htm

Depravity Lies at the Bottom of Demon-Worship.
... And so you are inferior to animals and plants! It would surely be a fine thing for
you to become a divining rod, or to assume the wings of a bird! ...
/.../tatian/tatians address to the greeks/chapter xix depravity lies at the.htm

Recapitulation. Definition of the Soul.
... above; in the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters he referred to the soul's "supremacy
or hegemony;" whilst we have had a hint about its "divining faculty," even ...
/.../a treatise on the soul/chapter xxii recapitulation definition of the.htm

The Epistle to the Philippians.
... Lydia, the purple dealer of Thyatira and a half proselyte to Judaism, a native
slave-girl with a divining spirit, which was used by her masters as a means of ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 97 the epistle to.htm

The Lord Acknowledged but one God and Father.
... these perverse mythologists state, setting their thoughts against God; and, putting
aside the doctrine of Christ, and of themselves divining falsehoods, they ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter i the lord acknowledged but.htm

Proof of the Existence of the Rational Soul. -1 Difference of Man ...
... and beholds what is outside himself, travelling to other countries, walking about,
meeting his acquaintances, and often by these means divining and forecasting ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/section 31 proof of the.htm

Props of the System.
... senseless worship! And how many of these things were formerly done by magical
art, in the way of interpreting dreams, and divining! Yet ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter xviii props of the system.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divine.

2. (a.) That divines; for divining.

Thesaurus

Divining (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divine. 2. (a.) That divines;
for divining. Multi-Version Concordance Divining (3 Occurrences). ...
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Augury (5 Occurrences)
... is in the King James Version "to observe times." The verb thus translated is `onen,
which means probably to utter a low croaking sound as was done in divining. ...
/a/augury.htm - 17k

Divinations (10 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 13:9 And My hand hath been on the prophets, Who are seeing vanity, and who
are divining a lie, In the assembly of My people they are not, And in the ...
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Magic (12 Occurrences)
... to have consulted the teraphim (qv) for oracular answers (Judges 18:5, 6; Zechariah
10:2). There is a remarkable illustration of this divining by teraphim in ...
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Cup (86 Occurrences)
... Revelation 17:4). The art of divining by means of a cup was practiced in
Egypt (Genesis 44:2-17), and in the East generally. The "cup ...
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Divination (25 Occurrences)
... 1, 2). (3) On hepatoscopy, or divining from the liver, see below, 6, (2), (c).
(4) It can be proved that among the ancient peoples (Babylonians, Egyptians ...
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Untempered (5 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity,
and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the ...
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Whitewash (7 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 22:28 Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions,
and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh ...
/w/whitewash.htm - 9k

Whited (7 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 22:28 And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar , seeing
false visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord ...
/w/whited.htm - 8k

Rabbah (14 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 21:21 represents the king of Babylon at "the head of the two ways" deciding
by means of the divining arrows whether he should march against Jerusalem ...
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Bible Concordance

Divining (3 Occurrences)

Ezekiel 13:9 And My hand hath been on the prophets, Who are seeing vanity, and who are divining a lie, In the assembly of My people they are not, And in the writing of the house of Israel they are not written, And unto the ground of Israel they come not, And ye have known that I 'am' the Lord Jehovah.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 21:29 In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 22:28 Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
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Subtopics

Divining

Related Terms

Augury (5 Occurrences)

Divinations (10 Occurrences)

Magic (12 Occurrences)

Cup (86 Occurrences)

Divination (25 Occurrences)

Untempered (5 Occurrences)

Whitewash (7 Occurrences)

Whited (7 Occurrences)

Rabbah (14 Occurrences)