- Original: אוב
- Transliteration: 'owb
- Phonetic: obe
- Definition:
1. water skin bottle
2. necromancer
a. necromancer, one who evokes the dead
b. ghost, spirit of a dead one
c. practice of necromancy
3. one that has a familiar spirit
- Origin: from the same as H1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name)
- TWOT entry: 37a
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine
- Strong's: From the same as H1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father´s name); properly a mumble that is a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist as from a jar): - bottle familiar spirit.
Total KJV Occurrences: 17
• bottles, 1
Job 32:19
• spirit, 7
Leviticus 20:27; 1 Samuel 28:7(2); 1 Samuel 28:8; 1 Chronicles 10:13; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Isaiah 29:4
• spirits, 9
Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6; Deuteronomy 18:11; 1 Samuel 28:3; 1 Samuel 28:9; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Kings 23:24; Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 19:3