Senses
1. magician, diviner-priest — The masculine noun חַרְטֹם denotes a magician, diviner, or sacred scribe — a class of occult practitioners in Egypt and Babylon. All three sense clusters represent the same lexical meaning with purely grammatical variation: S99150 has the article+plural (הַחַרְטֻמִּים 'the magicians,' 7x), S99151 is the construct plural (חַרְטֻמֵּי 'magicians of,' 3x), and S99154 is prepositional (בַּחַרְטֻמִּים 'on the magicians,' 1x). Multilingual evidence is uniform: Arabic السَّحَرَةُ/سَحَرَةُ (sorcerers), Spanish magos (magi), Hindi जादूगरों (magicians)/ज्योतिषियों (astrologers), Korean 요술사들/술사들 (sorcerers), Swahili waganga/wachawi (diviners/sorcerers). The consistent translation across all languages as 'magicians/sorcerers' confirms a single sense covering Pharaoh's court magicians (Exod 7-9), Nebuchadnezzar's wise men (Dan 1-2), and Joseph's rivals (Gen 41). 11×
AR["السَّحَرَةُ","الـ-سَحَرَةَ","الـ-سَحَرَةِ","الْ-سَّحَرَةِ","سَحَرَةُ","سَحَرَةِ","عَلَى-السَّحَرَةِ"]·ben["-মন্ত্রবিদদের","মন্ত্রবিদগণ-","মন্ত্রবিদদের","মন্ত্রবিদদের-মধ্যে","মন্ত্রবিদরা","মন্ত্রবিদেরা"]·DE["Wahrsager","Zauberer-von","[החרטמים]","[לחרטמים]","auf-der-Zauberer","den-Wahrsagern","der-Zauberer"]·EN["for-the-magicians","magicians-of","on-the-magicians","the-magicians"]·FR["le-magiciens","magicien","magiciens-de","sur-le-magiciens"]·heb["ב-חרטומים","ה-חרטומים","ה-חרטמים","חרטומי","חרטמי","ל-חרטומים"]·HI["को-ज्योतिषियों","जादूगर","जादूगरों","जादूगरों-ने","जादूगरों-पर","ज्योतिषियों"]·ID["ahli-ahli-nujum","ahli-jampi","ahli-sihir","pada-ahli-ahli-nujum","para-ahli-sihir"]·IT["[החרטמים]","[לחרטמים]","il-maghi","maghi-di","su-il-maghi"]·jav["dukun-Mesir","dukun-dukun","kang-para-ahli-sihir","para-dukun","wonten-ing-dukun-dukun"]·KO["그-마술사들에게","그-박수들","그-술사들과","그-술사들이","그-요술사들이","마술사들을","술사들에게","요술사들이"]·PT["aos-magos","magos-de","nos-magos","os-magos"]·RU["-чародеев","-чародеями","волхвам","волхвов","волхвы","на-волхвах"]·ES["a-los-magos","en-los-magos","los-magos","magos-de"]·SW["kwa-waganga","wachawi","wachawi-wa","waganga"]·TR["-büyücülere","büyücülerden","büyücüleri","büyücülerini","sihirbazlar","sihirbazlarda","sihirbazları"]·urd["ال-جادوگروں","ال-جادوگروں-کو","جادوگر","جادوگروں","جادوگروں-نے","جادوگروں-پر"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [חַרְטֹם] n.m. Ex 7:22 engraver, writer, only in deriv. sense of one possessed of occult knowledge, diviner, astrologer, magician (prob. = ם + חֶרֶט, v. Di Ol§ 216, 5 Sta§§ 295, 327 a)—only pl. abs. חַרְטֻמִּים Gn 41:24 + 4 times; חַרְטֻמִּם Ex 8:15; 9:11; cstr. חַרְטֻמֵּי Gn 41:8 + 2 times;— 1. magicians of Egypt Gn 41:8 (E; ‖ חֲכָמִים), v 24 (E), Ex 8:3, 14, 15; 7:11 (‖ חֲכָמִים,…