Definition

(as a noun) a necromancer (from their soft incantations), (as an adverb) gently

Etymology

from an unused root perhaps meaning to move softly;

Where the KJV renders it

• charmer
• gently
• secret
• softly

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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