TBESH · H0178
אוֹב · ov · medium
1) water skin bottle 2) necromancer 1b) necromancer, one who evokes the dead 1c) ghost, spirit of a dead one 1d) practice of necromancy 3) one that has a familiar spirit
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ov H178
אוֹב (ov) means “medium” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
אוֹב Hebrew · H178 17 tagged occurrences in 16 verses
Pronunciation guide: obe Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from the same as H1 (אָב) (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name); properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
KJV glosses: bottle, familiar spirit.
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How translators render H178
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| a medium | 5 |
| mediums | 5 |
| the mediums | 3 |
| a spirit | 1 |
| like a spirit | 1 |
| to mediums | 1 |
| wineskin | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| a familiar spirit | 4 |
| with familiar spirits | 2 |
| and to them that have familiar spirits | 1 |
| bottles | 1 |
| familiar spirits | 1 |
| not them that have familiar spirits | 1 |
| shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit | 1 |
| such as have familiar spirits | 1 |
| those that had familiar spirits | 1 |
| those that have familiar spirits | 1 |
| unto me by the familiar spirit | 1 |
| unto them that have familiar spirits | 1 |
| with a familiar spirit | 1 |
Verses containing H178
Page 1 of 1. 16 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Leviticus 19:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
Read word by word - Leviticus 20:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
Read word by word - Leviticus 20:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 18:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:7
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her.” “There is a medium at Endor,” his servants replied.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes, and he set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I name.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 21:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 10:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 33:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Job 32:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.
Read word by word - Isaiah 8:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Read word by word - Isaiah 19:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
Read word by word - Isaiah 29:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.
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