noun · masculine
magos
Strong’sG3097
a sorcerer, magician, wizard
stem mag-6 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books5 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μάγος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for אַשָּׁף, Da LXX TH 2:2, 10, al. (cf. רַב־מָג chief magian, Je 39:3, 13);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3097 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmag'-os
a Magian, i.e. Oriental scientist; by implication, a magician
Fromof foreign origin ();
King Jamessorcerer, wise man.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
“Magian”, one of a Median tribe, Refs 5th c.BC+: hence, as belonging to this tribe,
2 one of the priests and wise men in Persia who interpreted dreams, NT+5th c.BC+
3 enchanter, wizard, especially in bad sense, impostor, charlatan, NT+5th c.BC+
II μάγος, ον, as adjective, magical, μάγῳ τέχνῃ πράττειν τι Refs 1st c.BC+. (Opers. maguš 'Magian'.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | magos1×μάγος | magois1×μάγοι |
| object accusative | magon1×μάγον | magoin1×μάγους |
| direct address vocative | magor | magoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | magou | magoiu2×μάγων |
| to, for dative | mago | magoi |
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
mago 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
magos“magician”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 13:8“magician”antistēote de autoi Elumos tos magos, houtōs gar methermēneuotō tem onomem autou, …But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from …
magon“magician”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 13:6“magician”… nēsan achri Pafau heuriskala andron tinon magon pseudoprofēton Ioudaion ho onomem Bariēsu,… the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus,
magois“wise men”subjectnominative plural1×
Matthew 2:1“wise men”… en hēmerai Hērōdou tou basilevou, idou magois apo anatolaiu paragenela eis Hierosolumeim… in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
magoin“wise men”objectaccusative plural1×
Matthew 2:7“wise men”Tote Hērōdos lathra kalarantos toin magoin akribata para autoiu ton chronon tou …Then Herod called the Magi secretly and learned from them the exact time the star had …
magoiu“wise men”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 2:16“wise men”… Hērōdos horarantos hoti empaizita hupo toiu magoiu thumita liōs, kai apostelarantos anairata pantoin …When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity …
Matthew 2:16“wise men”… ton chronon hon akribata para toiu magoiu.… to the time he had learned from the Magi.