Bible dictionaries

Wizard

What Bible dictionaries say about “Wizard”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Wizard - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

A pretender to supernatural knowledge and power, "a knowing one," as the original Hebrew word signifies. Such an one was forbidden on pain of death to practise his deceptions (Lev. 19:31; 20:6, 27; 1 Sam. 28:3; Isa. 8:19; 19:3).

Wizard - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

WIZARD, n. [from wise.] A conjurer; an enchanter; a sorcerer. Lev 20.

The wily wizard must be caught.

WIZARD, a.

1. Enchanting; charming.

2. Haunted by wizards.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

wiz'-ard.

See ASTROLOGY, 1; DIVINATION; FAMILIAR; MAGIC; WITCH, WITCHCRAFT.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

[DIVINATION; MAGIC, MAGICIANS]

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith