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The word kashaph is 'to use magical formulas or incantations,' 'to practise sorcery.' A witch was not suffered to live. Ex. 22: 18; Deut. 18: 10; 2 Kings 9: 22; 2 Chr. 33: 6; Micah 5: 12; Nahum 3: 4. In 1 Sam. 15: 23 the word is qesem, divination. In Gal. 5: 20 it is φαρμακεία, sorcery. See DIVINATION.