- μάγος
- a sorcerer, magician, wizard
- a sorcerer, a magician, a wizard.
- μάγος
- sage
- G:N-M
- μάγος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for אַשָּׁף, Dan LXX TH(cf. chief magian,Refs
Dan.2:2, 10, al.) ;]Refs
Jer.39:3, 13
__1. one of the Μάγοι, a Median tribe (Hat).
__2. a Magian, one of a sacred caste, originally Median, who seem to have conformed to the Persian religion, while retaining some of their old beliefs (see DB, I vol., 565 f.; DB, iii, 203 ff.):Refs
Mat.2:1, 7 2:16
__3. a wizard, sorcerer:(cf.Refs
Act.13:6, 8).†Refs
Wis.17:7, Act.8:9; ?Act.8:1
(AS)
1) a magus
1a) the 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.
1b) the 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
1c) a false prophet and sorcerer
1a) the 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.
1b) the 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
1c) a false prophet and sorcerer
μάγος
magos
mag'-os
Of foreign origin [H7248]; a Magian, that is, Oriental scientist; by implication a magician
KJV Usage: sorcerer, wise man.