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soothsayer


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Soothsayer  \Sooth"say`er\,  n. 
  1.  One  who  foretells  events  by  the  art  of  soothsaying;  a 
  prognosticator. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  A  mantis. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  soothsayer 
  n  :  someone  who  makes  predictions  of  the  future  [syn:  {forecaster}, 
  {predictor},  {prognosticator}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Soothsayer 
  one  who  pretends  to  prognosticate  future  events.  Baalam  is  so 
  called  (Josh.  13:22;  Heb.  kosem  a  "diviner,"  as  rendered  1  Sam. 
  6:2;  rendered  "prudent,"  Isa.  3:2).  In  Isa.  2:6  and  Micah  5:12 
  (Heb.  yonenim  i.e.,  "diviners  of  the  clouds")  the  word  is  used 
  of  the  Chaldean  diviners  who  studied  the  clouds.  In  Dan.  2:27; 
  5:7  the  word  is  the  rendering  of  the  Chaldee  gazrin  i.e., 
  deciders"  or  "determiners",  here  applied  to  Chaldean 
  astrologers,  "who,  by  casting  nativities  from  the  place  of  the 
  stars  at  one's  birth,  and  by  various  arts  of  computing  and 
  divining,  foretold  the  fortunes  and  destinies  of  individuals.", 
  Gesenius  Lex.  Heb.  (See  {SORCERER}.) 
 




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