μαντεία
divination
Where this word appears
Every passage where μαντεία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 13 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 23:23 μαντεία For there is no divination in Jacob, nor enchantment in Israel; in season it shall be told to Jacob and Israel what God shall perform.
- Deuteronomy 18:10 μαντεία There shall not be found in you one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,
- Deuteronomy 18:14 μαντεία For all these nations whose land you shall inherit, they will listen to omens and divinations; but the Lord your God has not permitted you so to do.
- 2 Kings 17:17 μαντεία And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.
- Isaiah 16:6 μαντεία We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: your prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus.
- Isaiah 44:25 μαντεία Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of man? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;
- Jeremiah 14:14 μαντεία Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, and divinations, and auguries, and devices of their own heart.
- Ezekiel 13:7 μαντεία Have you⌃ not seen a false vision? and spoken vain prophecies?
- Ezekiel 13:8 μαντεία And therefore say, Thus says the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord.
- Ezekiel 13:23 μαντεία therefore you⌃ shall not see false visions, and you⌃ shall no more utter prophecies: but I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you⌃ shall know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 21:26 μαντεία You have taken off the mitre and put on the crown, it shall not have such another after it: you have abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low.
- Ezekiel 21:28 μαντεία And you, son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and you shall say, O sword, sword, drawn for slaughter, and drawn for destruction, awake, that you may gleam.
- Micah 3:6 μαντεία therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.
About this word
About this word
μαντεία (manteía), “divination,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 13 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →