(Heb. and Chald. , asshlaph’, an enchanter, Dan 1:20; Dan 2:2; Dan 2:10; Dan 2:27; Dan 4:7; Dan 5:7; Dan 5:11; Dan 5:15; once Heb. , hober’ shama’yim, sky- divider, i.e. former of horoscopes; Sept. ; Vulg. augur caeli, Isa 47:13), a person who professes to divine future events by the appearance of the stars. SEE ASTROLOGY. The Babylonians were anciently famous for this kind of lore (Rawlinson’s Herodotus, i, Essay x; Simplicius ad Aristot. De Calo, ii, 123; Pliny, Hist. Nat. 7:56; Vitruv. 9:9). SEE ASTRONOMY.<\/p>\n
(Dan. 1:20<\/span>; 2:2<\/span>, 10<\/span>, 27<\/span>, etc.) Heb. ‘ashshaph’, an enchanter, one who professes to divine future events by the appearance of the stars. This science flourished among the Chaldeans. It was positively forbidden to the Jews (Deut. 4:19<\/span>; 18:10<\/span>; Isa. 47:13<\/span>).<\/p>\n 1. In Dan 1:20; Dan 2:2; Dan 2:10; Dan 2:27; Dan 4:7; Dan 5:7; Dan 5:11; Dan 5:15 the Hebrew word is ashshaph, signifying ‘enchanter, magician;’ one who practised occult arts. This word occurs nowhere else.<\/p>\n 2. habar shamayim , one who viewed or divided the heavens, an astrologer, who professed to foretell events by the position of the planets. Isa 47:13. Babylon was wearied with its various counsellors, who doubtless often differed one from another; but it had no other resource, so it turned to its astrologers, stargazers, etc. See DIVINATION.<\/p>\n Astrologer (Heb. and Chald. , asshlaph’, an enchanter, Dan 1:20; Dan 2:2; Dan 2:10; Dan 2:27; Dan 4:7; Dan 5:7; Dan 5:11; Dan 5:15; once Heb. , hober’ shama’yim, sky- divider, i.e. former of horoscopes; Sept. ; Vulg. augur caeli, Isa 47:13), a person who professes to divine future events by the appearance of the … Continue reading “Astrologer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Astrologer<\/h2>\n
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