◄ 3132. manteuomai ►
Strong's Lexicon manteuomai: to practice divination, to prophesy falsely Original Word: μαντεύομαι Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: manteuomai Pronunciation: man-tyoo'-om-ahee Phonetic Spelling: (mant-yoo'-om-ahee) Definition: to practice divination, to prophesy falsely Meaning: I divine, practice soothsaying, suggesting the fraud involved in the practice. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin from mantis (a seer) Definition to divine NASB Translation fortune-telling (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3132: μαντεύομαι μαντεύομαι; (μάντις (a seer; allied to μανία, μαίνομαι; cf. Curtius, § 429)); from Homer down; to act as seer; deliver an oracle, prophesy, divine: Acts 16:16 μαντευομένη, of a false prophetess (A. V. by soothsaying). The Sept. for קָסַם, to practise divination; said of false prophets. (On the heathen character of the suggestions and associations of the word, as distinguished from προφητεύω, see Trench, N. T. Synonyms, § vi.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance soothsaying. From a derivative of mainomai (meaning a prophet, as supposed to rave through inspiration); to divine, i.e. Utter spells (under pretense of foretelling -- by soothsaying. see GREEK mainomai Forms and Transliterations εμαντεύοντο μάντεις μαντεύεσθαί μαντευομενη μαντευομένη μαντευόμενοι μαντεύομενοι μαντευόμενος μαντευομένων μαντεύσασθαι μαντεύσησθε μάντευσον μάντιν manteuomene manteuomenē manteuoméne manteuoménē Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Acts 16:16 V-PPM/P-NFS GRK: κυρίοις αὐτῆς μαντευομένη NAS: much profit by fortune-telling. KJV: much gain by soothsaying: INT: masters of her by fortune-telling Strong's Greek 3132 1 Occurrence μαντευομένη — 1 Occ.