Lexicon / H3785
כֶּ֫שֶׁף
ke.sheph
  • sorcery

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: sorcery

sorcery, witchcraft

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: sorcery

Root √כשׁף: כשׁף כֶּשֶׂף Arabic Syriac cut off, cut up to pray to cut oneself shredded 1 K 18:28 (√ of foll.; cf. Ar. Syr.(lit. prob.v.): so RS JPhil. xiv. 125, 126 Nö ZMG 1886, 723; acc. to RSis prop, herbs etc.into a magic brew).

כֶּ֫שֶׁף n.m sorcery .