Buenos Noches Webmaster,
I must say that you are not correct in your current line of investigation...
here is something I put together elsewhere that might help you.
Mark wrote:Other places the word Kashaph is used in the Bible.
De 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
so.... does poisoner really fit there? hmmm
Ex 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
Do poisoners use enchantments????
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Ex 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
The infamous verse that always seems to kick off this argument.
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2Ch 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witch craft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Again with the enchantments and such....
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Da 2:2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
Here's a question for you.... why would the King... call poisoners to shew
him his dreams???
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And kasheph....
Mic 5:12 And I will cut off witchcraft s out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
poisoners on a par with soothsayers? probably not.
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And Kashshaph.........
Jer 27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerer's, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
and again.. you see... 'poisoners' really doesn't fit here either...
there are a few more verses.. but those are the various iterations of the
Hebrew word Kashaph....
I put this together for the benifit of those using the 'pharmakeia'
line of argument to say that God wasnt really talking about witchcraft..
just poisoners...
*shrugs*
it doesn't wash.
Doctors and pharmacists, while some of them are incompetant...,
are not practicing witchcraft by plying their trade.
And yes, I speak as one who is very familiar with what witchcraft actually is.
His servant,
Mark