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noun · neuter

farmakem

Greekφάρμακον (farmakon)

Strong’sG5331

magic, sorcery, enchantment

stem farmak-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur

Translated as

sorceries

What it means

φάρμακον, -ου, τό,

[in LXX for כֶּשֶׁף;]

(a) a drug;
(b) an incantation, enchantment: Re 9:21, Tr., mg., WH, txt. (RV, sorceries).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5331 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfar-mak-i'-ah

medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively)

Fromfrom G5332;

King Jamessorcery, witchcraft.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject or object directfarmakemfarmakeim
of, belonging to genitivefarmakeufarmakeiuφαρμάκων
to, for dativefarmakefarmakei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
farmakstem+egender+muits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

farmake is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

farmakos — φάρμακος, a magician, sorcererfarmakos — φαρμακός, a magician, sorcerer

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

farmakeiu“sorceries”of, belonging togenitive plural

Revelation 9:21“sorceries”kai ouk metanoala ek toiu fonoiu autoiu oute ek teiu farmakeiu autoiu oute ek tau porneiau autoiu oute ek teiu klemmeiu autoiu.Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.