Strong's Number 3097

Transliteration:
magos {mag'-os}
Word Origin:
of foreign origin 7248
TDNT:
4:356,547
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
wise man 4, sorcerer 2

Total: 6
Definition:
  1. a magus
    1. the name given by the Babylonians (Chaldeans), Medes, Persians, and others, to the wise men, teachers, priests, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, augers, soothsayers, sorcerers etc.
    2. the oriental wise men (astrologers) who, having discovered by the rising of a remarkable star that the Messiah had just been born, came to Jerusalem to worship him
    3. a false prophet and sorcerer