Senses
1. enchanter, astrologer, conjurer — A practitioner of divination or sorcery, used exclusively in Daniel (Aramaic sections) to describe Babylonian court magicians. All three clusters represent the same lexical meaning in different inflections: definite plural (eng: the-enchanters, spa: los-astrólogos, arb: الْعَرَّافُونَ, kor: 점술사들, swa: wachawi), singular with conjunction (eng: and-enchanter, spa: y-encantador, arb: وَ-مُنَجِّمٍ, swa: na-msihiri), and indefinite plural (eng: enchanters, spa: encantadores, arb: الـ-مُنَجِّمُونَ, hin: टोन्हे, swa: wasihiri). The semantic content is uniform across all languages. 6×
AR["الـ-مُنَجِّمُونَ","الْعَرَّافُونَ","الْعَرَّافِينَ","وَ-مُنَجِّمٍ"]·ben["-জ্যোতিষীদের","এবং-জ্যোতিষী","জ্যোতিষীদের","জ্যোতিষীরা"]·DE["[אשפיא]","[אשפין]","[ואשף]","[לאשפיא]"]·EN["and-enchanter","enchanters","the-enchanters"]·FR["[אשפיא]","[אשפין]","[ואשף]","[לאשפיא]"]·heb["אשפים","ו-אשף","ל-אשפים"]·HI["और-टोन्हा","को-तांत्रिकों","टोन्हे","तांत्रिक","तांत्रिकों"]·ID["ahli-ahli-jampi","ahli-sihir","dan-ahli-sihir","para-ahli-jampi"]·IT["[אשפיא]","[אשפין]","[ואשף]","[לאשפיא]"]·jav["*-para-ahli-nujum","lan-ahli-tenung","para-ahli-nujum","para-ahli-tenung","para-juru-sihir"]·KO["그리고-점쟁이에게도","점술사들","점술사들-을","점술사들-의","점술사들-이","점쟁이들이"]·PT["encantadores","os-encantadores","ou-encantador"]·RU["заклинателей","заклинатели","и-заклинателя"]·ES["a-los-astrólogos","astrólogos","encantadores","los-astrólogos","y-encantador"]·SW["na-msihiri","wachawi","wasihiri"]·TR["sihirbazlar","sihirbazların","ve-sihirbazdan"]·urd["اور-نجومی","فالگیر","فالگیروں","فالگیروں-کو","نجومی"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אָשַׁף (K § 58 a) n.m. conjurer, enchanter (prob. Bab. loan-word; so BH אַשָּׁף);—abs. א׳ Dn 2:10; pl. abs. אָֽשְׁפִין v 27; 5:11, emph. אָֽשְׁפַיָּא 4:4; 5:7, 15.