necromancer

«necromancer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A person who tries to speak with the dead to learn… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A person who tries to speak with the dead to learn secrets or the future. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The Torah forbids this practice, along with other kinds of magic, as part of the ways of the nations that Israel was told to avoid. Interpretation: Tradition reads the ban as teaching trust in God alone, not in the dead or in spirits, to know what will come.

examples

• or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer. (Torah DEU.18.11, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

In the corpora

• or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «necromancer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.