Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
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Usage: 1) water skin bottle 2) necromancer 1b) necromancer, one who evokes the dead 1c) ghost, spirit of a dead one 1d) practice of necromancy 3) one that has a familiar spirit
Ob means “bottle” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G178 — akatakritos (“uncondemned”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H178 אוֹב (owb) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. owb (obe) n-m. 1. (properly) a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound) 2. a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar) It has 16 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include necromancer. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
owb (obe) n-m. 1. (properly) a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound) 2. a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar) [from the same as H1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name)] KJV: bottle, familiar spirit. Root(s): H1
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H178. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: 1) water skin bottle 2) necromancer 1b) necromancer, one who evokes the dead 1c) ghost, spirit of a dead one 1d) practice of necromancy 3) one that has a familiar spirit
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render owb, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
16 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H178.
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
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 witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H178, grouped by book.
Ob (Strong's H178) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "bottle". owb (obe) n-m. 1. (properly) a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound) 2. a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H178 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H178 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as necromancer. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.