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noun · feminine

mageias

Greekμαγεία (mageia)

Strong’sG3095

magic

stem magei-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

magic

What it means

μαγεία, v.s. μαγία.

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

Strong’s G3095 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmag-i'-ah

"magic"

Fromfrom G3096;

King Jamessorcery.

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 nominativemageiasmageiais
object accusativemageianmageiain
direct address vocativemageiarmageiair
of, belonging to genitivemageiaumageiaiu
to, for dativemageiamageiaiμαγείαις

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
mageistem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

mageia 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

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mageiai“magic”to, fordative plural

Acts 8:11“magic”prosechale de auto dia tem hikano chrono tai mageiai existanarē autoin.They paid close attention to him because he had astounded them for a long time with his sorcery.