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H0178אוֹבov

mediumPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. Genesis: 0
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. 3
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. 1
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 5
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2
  13. 1
  14. 1
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 1
  19. Psalms: 0
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 3
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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17 occurrences in 16 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Leviticus 19:31

    Turn ye not unto the ghosts, nor unto familiar spirits; seek them not out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

    הָאֹבֹת֙ (אֹבֹת֙) 'o.Vot “necromancers”

  2. Leviticus 20:6

    And the soul that turneth unto the ghosts, and unto the familiar spirits, to go astray after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

    הָֽאֹבֹת֙ (אֹבֹת֙) 'o.Vot “necromancers”

  3. Leviticus 20:27

    A man also or a woman that divineth by a ghost or a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

    א֛וֹב 'ov “a necromancer”

  4. Deuteronomy 18:11

    or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer.

    אוֹב֙ 'Ov “a necromancer”

  5. 1 Samuel 28:3

    Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land.

    הָאֹב֥וֹת (אֹב֥וֹת) 'o.Vot “necromancers”

  6. 1 Samuel 28:7

    Then said Saul unto his servants: 'Seek me a woman that divineth by a ghost, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.' And his servants said to him: 'Behold, there is a woman that divineth by a ghost at En-dor.'

    א֔וֹב 'ov “necromancy”א֖וֹב 'ov “necromancy”

  7. 1 Samuel 28:8

    And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and he said: 'Divine unto me, I pray thee, by a ghost, and bring me up whomsoever I shall name unto thee.'

    בָּא֔וֹב (א֔וֹב) 'ov “necromancy”

  8. 1 Samuel 28:9

    And the woman said unto him: 'Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that divine by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land; wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?'

    הָאֹב֥וֹת (אֹב֥וֹת) 'o.Vot “necromancers”

  9. 2 Kings 21:6

    And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised soothsaying, and used enchantments, and appointed them that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him.

    א֖וֹב 'ov “necromancer”

  10. 2 Kings 23:24

    Moreover them that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the detestable things that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were w

    הָאֹב֣וֹת (אֹב֣וֹת) 'o.Vot “necromancers”

  11. 1 Chronicles 10:13

    So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, because of the word of the LORD, which he kept not; and also for that he asked counsel of a ghost, to inquire thereby,

    בָּא֖וֹב (א֖וֹב) 'ov “necromancy”

  12. 2 Chronicles 33:6

    He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practised soothsaying, and used enchantments, and practised sorcery, and appointed them that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit; he wrought much evil in th

    א֖וֹב 'ov “necromancer”

  13. Job 32:19

    Behold, mine inwards are as wine which hath no vent; like new wine-skins which are ready to burst.

    כְּאֹב֥וֹת (אֹב֥וֹת) 'o.Vot “wineskins”

  14. Isaiah 8:19

    And when they shall say unto you: 'Seek unto the ghosts and the familiar spirits, that chirp and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living unto the dead

    הָאֹבוֹת֙ (אֹבוֹת֙) 'Ot “necromancers”

  15. Isaiah 19:3

    And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it; and I will make void the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the whisperers, and to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits.

    הָאֹב֖וֹת (אֹב֖וֹת) 'o.Vot “necromancers”

  16. Isaiah 29:4

    And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.

    כְּא֤וֹב (א֤וֹב) 'ov “a necromancer”