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[[File:witchcraft.jpg|px350|thumb|" Double, double toil and trouble;<Br>
Fire burn and caldron bubble.<Br>
Cool it with a [[Polio_Vaccine_and_Cancer|baboon's blood]],<Br>
Then the charm is firm and good."<Br> The witches' song of Shakespeare's Macbeth.]]

== Witchcraft ==

[[Witchcraft]] as an English term first appears in the King James Bible in [[1 Samuel 15]]:23 <Ref>1 Samuel 15:23  For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.</Ref> 

But it is translated from the Hebrew word ''qecem''<Ref>{{07081}}</Ref> but may be translated ''divination'' and is also from kesheph as a noun<Ref>{{03785}}</Ref> or as a verb<Ref>{{03784}}</Ref>  and often associated with [[iniquity]] <[[0205]]> and [[idolatry]] <[[08655]]>.

In the New Testament we see the words sorcery and witchcraft from the Greek word ''pharmakeia''<Ref>{{5331}}</Ref> 


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2 Kings 9:22  And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the [[whore]]doms of thy mother Jezebel and her [[witchcraft]]s<[[03785]]> [are so] many?

2 Chronicles 33:6  And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft<[[03784]]>, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

[[Micah 5]]:12  And I will cut off witchcrafts<[[03785]]> out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:

[[Nahum 3]]:4 Because of the multitude of the [[whoredom]]s of the wellfavoured<Ref>We see in the text  טֽוֹבַת TetVavBeit'''[[Tav]]''' instead of TetVavBeit <Br>{{02896}}<Br> </Ref> [[harlot]], the mistress of [[witchcraft]]s<Ref name="sorcery">Instead of the normal KafShinPie we see KafShinPieYodMen only here in [[Nahum 3]]  {{03785}}</Ref>, that selleth nations through her [[whoredom]]s, and families through her [[witchcraft]]s.<Ref name="sorcery">Instead of the normal KafShinPie we see KafShinPieYodMen only here in [[Nahum 3]]  {{03785}}</Ref>

[[Galatians 5]]:20  [[Idolatry]], ''witchcraft'' <5331>, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

[[Revelation 9]]:21  Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries <5331>, nor of their [[fornication]], nor of their thefts.

Revelation 18:23  And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries <[[5331]]> were all nations deceived.

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