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H5172נָחַשׁna.chash

to divinePart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 5
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. 1
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. 1
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1
  12. 2
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 1
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. Psalms: 0
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. Isaiah: 0
  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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11 occurrences in 9 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 30:27

    And Laban said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes--I have observed the signs, and the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.'

    נִחַ֕שְׁתִּי ni.Chash.ti “I have learned by divination”

  2. Genesis 44:5

    Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'

    נַחֵ֥שׁ na.Chesh “indeed <divine>”יְנַחֵ֖שׁ ye.na.Chesh “he practices divination”

  3. Genesis 44:15

    And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I will indeed divine?'

    נַחֵ֧שׁ na.Chesh “indeed <divine>”יְנַחֵ֛שׁ ye.na.Chesh “he practices divination”

  4. Leviticus 19:26

    Ye shall not eat with the blood; neither shall ye practise divination nor soothsaying.

    תְנַחֲשׁ֖וּ te.na.cha.Shu “you will practice divination”

  5. Deuteronomy 18:10

    There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

    וּמְנַחֵ֖שׁ (מְנַחֵ֖שׁ) me.na.Chesh “an augurer”

  6. 1 Kings 20:33

    Now the men took it for a sign, and hastened to catch it from him; and they said: 'Thy brother Ben-hadad.' Then he said: 'Go ye, bring him.' Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into his chariot.

    יְנַחֲשׁ֨וּ ye.na.cha.Shu “they observed [the] signs”

  7. 2 Kings 17:17

    and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and gave themselves over to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him;

    וַיְנַחֵ֑שׁוּ (יְנַחֵ֑שׁוּ) y.na.Che.shu “they practiced divination”

  8. 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.

    וְנִחֵ֔שׁ (נִחֵ֔שׁ) ni.Chesh “he practiced divination”

  9. 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

    וְנִחֵשׁ֙ (נִחֵשׁ֙) ni.Chesh “he practiced divination”