Quick Reference DictionarySoothsayerSoothsayer
one who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called ( Joshua 13:22 ; Heb. kosem, a "diviner," as rendered 1 Samuel 6:2 ; rendered "prudent," Isaiah 3:2 ). In Isaiah 2:6 and Micah 5:12 (Heb. yonenim, i.e., "diviners of the clouds") the word is used of the Chaldean diviners who studied the clouds. In Daniel 2:27 ; 5:7 the word is the rendering of the Chaldee gazrin, i.e., "deciders" or "determiners", here applied to Chaldean astrologers, "who, by casting nativities from the place of the stars at one's birth, and by various arts of computing and divining, foretold the fortunes and destinies of individuals.", Gesenius, Lex. Heb. (See SORCERER .)
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Soothsayer
A foreteller of the future by astrology.Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the SOOTHSAYERS: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof. ( Daniel 4:6-7 )
Bibliography Information"Entry for 'Soothsayer'". Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible.
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Bibliography InformationSmith, William, Dr. "Entry for 'Soothsayer'". "Smith's Bible Dictionary".