Lexicon pharmakeus: sorcerer. Original Word: φαρμακεύςTransliteration: pharmakeus Phonetic Spelling: (far-mak-yoos') Short Definition: sorcerer HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 5332 pharmakeús – a person using drug-based incantations or drugging religious enchantments; a pharmakeus-practitioner who "mixes up distorted religious potions" like a sorcerer-magician. They try to "work their magic" by performing pseudo "supernatural" stunts, weaving illusions about the Christian life to use "powerful" religious formulas ("incantations") that manipulate the Lord into granting more temporal gifts (especially "invincible health and wealth"). This has a "drugging" effect on the aspiring religious zealot, inducing them to think they have "special spiritual powers" (that do not operate in keeping with Scripture). See 5331 (pharmakeía). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originvariant reading for pharmakos, q.v. Thayer's STRONGS NT 5332: φαρμακεύςφαρμακεύς, φαρμακεως, ὁ ( φάρμακον), one who prepares or uses magical remedies; a sorcerer: Revelation 21:8 Rec. (Sophicles, Plato, Josephus, Lucian, Plutarch, others.)
Strong's sorcerer. From pharmakon (a drug, i.e. Spell-giving potion); a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, i.e. (by extension) a magician -- sorcerer. |
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