Keraia
Lexicon

עָנַן

a.nanto cloud
hebrewOld TestamentVerb11 occurrences9 books11 verses
This word comes from the name of Diviners' Oak.

Definition

a primitive root; to cover; used only as a denominative from H6051, to cloud over; figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic
Traditional renderings: × bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe(-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.

Glossary entries

Diviners’ Oak

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

11 total
  1. Genesis 9:14בְּעַֽנְנִ֥י · Whenever I form
    Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
  2. Leviticus 19:26תְעוֹנֵֽנוּ׃ · sorcery
    You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
  3. Deuteronomy 18:10מְעוֹנֵ֥ן · [or] conjury
    Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
  4. Deuteronomy 18:14מְעֹנְנִ֥ים · conjurers
    Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
  5. Judges 9:37מְעוֹנְנִֽים׃ · the Diviners’
    Then Gaal spoke up again, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by way of the Diviners’ Oak.”
  6. 2 Kings 21:6וְעוֹנֵ֣ן · practiced sorcery
    He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
  7. 2 Chronicles 33:6וְעוֹנֵ֤ן · He practiced sorcery
    He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
  8. Isaiah 2:6וְעֹֽנְנִ֖ים · they are soothsayers
    For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
  9. Isaiah 57:3עֹנְנָ֑ה · of a sorceress
    “But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
  10. Jeremiah 27:9עֹֽנְנֵיכֶ֖ם · your mediums
    But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
  11. Micah 5:12וּֽמְעוֹנְנִ֖ים · fortune-tellers
    I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.