Strong's Number 3097
Transliteration:
magos
{mag'-os}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
4:356,547
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
wise man 4, sorcerer 2
Total: 6
Definition:
- a magus
- 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.
- 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
- a false prophet and sorcerer