φαρμακία
sorcery, witchcraft
Where this word appears
Every passage where φαρμακία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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.
- Exodus 7:11 φαρμακία But Pharao called together the wise men of Egypt, and the sorcerers, and the charmers also of the Egyptians did likewise with their sorceries.
- Exodus 7:22 φαρμακία And the charmers also of the Egyptians did so with their sorceries; and the heart of Pharao was hardened, and he did not listen to them, even as the Lord said.
- Exodus 8:3 φαρμακία and the river shall teem with frogs, and they shall go up and enter into your houses, and into your bed-chambers, and upon your beds, and upon the houses of your servants, and of your people and on your dough, and on your ovens.
- Exodus 8:14 φαρμακία And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
- Isaiah 47:9 φαρμακία But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,
- Isaiah 47:12 φαρμακία Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited.
About this word
About this word
φαρμακία (pharmakía), “sorcery, witchcraft,” 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 6 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 →