Lexical Definition

‎יִדְּעֹנִי‎ yiddᵉʻônîy (yid-deh-o-nee') spiritist ^H:N-M
from ‎יָדַע‎

wizard.

• properly, a knowing one
• specifically, a conjurer
• (by impl) a ghost

1) a knower, one who has a familiar spirit
1a) a familiar spirit, soothsayer, necromancer (meton)

See Greek: γνώστης

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎יִדְּעֹנִי‎ noun masculine familiar spirit (properly either as knowing, wise (acquainted with secrets of unseen world), Ew vielwisserisch; or as intimate acquaintance of soothsayer, see RS^{JPh xiv. 1885. 127}) — absolute ‎יִדְּעֹנִי‎ Deut 18:11 + 2 t.; plural ‎יִדְּעֹנִים‎ 1Sam 28:3 + 6 t.; ‎הַיִּדְּעֹנִי מִן‎ 1Sam 28:9, read ‎הַיִּדְּעֹנִים מִן‎ (see ᵐ5 Th We Klo Dr); familiar spirit, always || ‎אוֺב‎, ‎אֹבוֺת‎ 1Sam 28:3; 1Sam 28:9; Isa 8:19; Isa 19:3; 2Kgs 21:6 (‎עשׂה אוֺב‎; || ‎נִחֵשׁ‎, ‎עוֺנֵן‎) = 2Chr 33:6; 2Kgs 23:24; Lev 19:31; Lev 20:6; Lev 20:27 (all H; on last two compare Acts 16:16 and Dr^{Deut 18:11}), Deut 18:11(|| ‎אוֺב‎ + ‎דֹּרֵשׁ אֶלהַֿמֵּתִים‎).

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