G3097Greekmágōn
μάγων
a magian (magi), i.e., oriental scientist; by implication, a magician
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Total Occurrences
2
Books
0
Old Testament
6
New Testament
Detailed Definition
- 1a magus
- 2the name given by the babylonians (chaldeans), medes, persians, and others, to the wise men, teachers, priests, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, augers, soothsayers, sorcerers etc.
- 3the oriental wise men (astrologers) who, having discovered by the rising of a remarkable star that the messiah had just been born, came to jerusalem to worship him
- 4a false prophet and sorcerer
Etymology & Derivation
of foreign origin (h7248)