Sorceries
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Isaiah 47:9
- Last Reference: Revelation 18:23
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Divination by an alleged assistance of evil spirits.
Forbidden
Leviticus 19:26-28; Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6; Deuteronomy 18:9-14
Denounced
Isaiah 8:19; Malachi 3:5
Practiced:
By the Egyptians
Isaiah 19:3; Isaiah 19:11-12
By the magicians
Exodus 7:11; Exodus 7:22; Exodus 8:7; Exodus 8:18
By Balaam
Exodus 4:22
By Jezebel
2 Kings 9:22
By the Ninevites
Nahum 3:4-5
By the Babylonians
Isaiah 47:9-13; Ezekiel 21:21-22; Daniel 2:2; Daniel 2:10; Daniel 2:27
By Belshazzar
Daniel 5:7; Daniel 5:15
By Simon Magus
Acts 8:9; Acts 8:11
By Elymas
Acts 13:8
By the damsel at Philippi
Acts 16:16
By vagabond Jews
Acts 19:13
By sons of Sceva
Acts 19:14-15
By astrologers
Jeremiah 10:2; Micah 3:6-7
By false prophets
Jeremiah 14:14; Jeremiah 27:9; Jeremiah 29:8-9; Ezekiel 13:6-9; Ezekiel 22:28; Matthew 24:24
To cease
Ezekiel 12:23-24; Ezekiel 13:23; Micah 5:12
Messages of, false
Ezekiel 21:29; Zech 10:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:9
Diviners shall be confounded
Micah 3:7
Belongs to the works of the flesh
Galatians 5:20
Wickedness of
1 Samuel 15:23
Vainness of
Isaiah 44:25
Punishment for
Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 13:5
Divining by:
Familiar spirits
Leviticus 20:27; 1 Chronicles 10:13; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 19:3; Isaiah 29:4
Entrails
Ezekiel 21:21
Images
2 Kings 23:24; Ezekiel 21:21
Rods
Hosea 4:12
Saul consulted the witch of En-Dor
1 Samuel 28:7-25
Books of, destroyed
Acts 19:19
SOR'CERY, noun Magic; enchantment; witchcraft; divination be the assistance of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits. Adder's wisdom I have learn'd to fence my ears against the sorceries.