כָּשַׁף kâshaph — properly, to whisper a spell, i.e. to inchant or practise magic
Translated in the KJV as sorcerer, witch.
a primitive root; properly, to whisper a spell, i.e. to inchant or practise magic.
kâshaph in each stem
Pi'el
Participle (active) 5Perfect (qatal) 1
Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›