Senses
1. familiar spirit, spiritist, medium — Masculine noun (יִדְּעֹנִי) denoting a practitioner of divination or necromancy, a 'knowing one' who claims to have access to the secrets of the unseen world through a familiar spirit. Derived from the root ידע ('to know'), the term designates one who possesses or consults a spirit of divination. It appears almost exclusively paired with אוֹב (H178, 'medium, necromancer') in legislative prohibitions and historical narratives: forbidden in the Holiness Code (Lev 19:31; 20:6, 27), banned alongside other occult practices in Deuteronomy (18:11), purged by Josiah (2 Kgs 23:24), yet practiced by Manasseh (2 Kgs 21:6; 2 Chr 33:6) and consulted by Saul through the medium at En-dor (1 Sam 28:3, 9). Also condemned in Isaiah (8:19; 19:3). All inflectional variants (singular, plural, with article, with conjunctions) refer to the same type of occult practitioner. 11×
AR["ال-عَرَّافِينَ","العرّافينَ","العَرَّافِينَ","الْجَانِّ","الْعَرَّافِينَ","عَرَّافٌ","وَ-عَرَّافًا","وَعَرَّافِينَ"]·ben["-দৈবজ্ঞদের","এবং-জ্ঞানীর","এবং-ভূতুড়ে","ও-মৃতদের-সাথে-কথা-বলাকারী","ভবিষ্যদ্বক্তাদের","ভূতুড়েদের","মন্ত্রবিদদের","মায়াবী","মায়াবীদের"]·DE["[הידענים]","[וידעוני]","der-spiritists","oder-familiar-Geist","spiritist","und-spiritists"]·EN["and-spiritist","and-spiritists","or-familiar-spirit","spiritist","the-spiritists"]·FR["[הידענים]","[וידעוני]","et-spiritists","le-spiritists","ou-familiar-esprit","spiritist"]·heb["ה-ידעוני","ה-ידעונים","ה-ידענים","ו-ידעוני","ו-ידעונים","ידעני"]·HI["और-जानने-वाली-आत्मा","और-जानने-वाले","जअदुगरोन","जादूगरों","जानने-वाली-आत्माओं-से","जाननेवाला","जाननेवालों","वे-यिद्देओनी","ह-यिद्देओनीम-को"]·ID["ahli-ahli-sihir","dan-ahli-sihir","dan-penyihir","dan-peramal-roh","para-penenung","para-tukang-tenung","peramal","peramal-peramal","roh-peramal"]·IT["[הידענים]","[וידעוני]","e-spiritisti","il-spiritisti","il-spiritists","o-familiar-spirito","spiritist"]·jav["akathah","dukun","jinèng","lan-dukun","lan-tukang-ramal","para-ahli-roh","tiyang-peramal","tukang-ramal","tukang-tenung","wong-pinter"]·KO["그-박수를","그-점쟁이들","그리고-신접에게","그리고-영매를","박수들을","박수를","박수하는-자들을","술사들","점쟁이"]·PT["adivinho","e-adivinho","e-feiticeiros","e-médium","os-adivinhos","os-feiticeiros"]·RU["волшебников","знахарей","знахарство","знахарям","и-волшебника","и-знахарей","и-знахаря","чародеям"]·ES["adivino","los-adivinos","o-adivino","y-adivino","y-adivinos"]·SW["au-wajuaji","mchawi","na-wachawi","wachawi","wapiga-ramli","wyidּwoniy"]·TR["bilicilere","cinci-hoca-ruhu","cinci-hokalara","cinleri-","falcilara","falcıları","ve-cin-biliciye","ve-cin-çağıranlar","ve-cinci"]·urd["اور-جاننے-والے","اور-جانکار-سے","اور-جنات","جادوگر","جادوگروں","جادوگروں-کی","جادوگروں-کے","جناتوں","فالگیروں"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† יִדְּעֹנִי n.m. familiar spirit (proposes either as knowing, wise (acquainted with secrets of unseen world), Ew vielwisserisch; or as intimate acquaintance of soothsayer, v. RS JPh. xiv. 1885. 127)—abs. יִדְּעֹנִי Dt 18:11 + 2 times; pl. יִדְּעֹנִים 1 S 28:3 + 6 times; הַיִּדְּעֹנִי מִן 1 S 28:9, read הַיִּדְּעֹנִים מִן (v. 𝔊 Th We Klo Dr); familiar spirit, always ‖ אוֹב, אֹבוֹת 1 S 28:3, 9 Is…