יִדְּעֹנִי
yiddĕʿōnî
familiar spirit
Strong's H3049NounHebrewTWOT 848d

יִדְּעֹנִי (yiddĕʿōnî) is a Hebrew noun meaning familiar spirit. It appears 11 times in 6 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3049).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 848d)

Range of meaning (TWOT 848d)familiar spirit, knowing, wise, intimate acquaintance; conjurer, ghost; wizard
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

יִדְּעֹנִי noun, masculine: familiar spirit, knowing, wise, intimate acquaintance

familiar spirit (properly either as knowing, wise; or as intimate acquaintance of soothsayer)

Strong's H3049 יִדְּעֹנִי: properly, a knowing one; specifically, a conjurer; (by impl) a ghost
KJV:wizard.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 848: יָדַע yādaʿ — know; learn to know, perceive, perceive and see, find out and discern, discriminate, distinguish, know by experience, recognize, admit, acknowledge, confess, consider, not know, not expect, be acquainted with, know a person…

See it in Scripture

Leviticus 19:31Deuteronomy 18:111 Samuel 28:3

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