3 occurrences

'Familiar' in the Bible

So Jehu smote all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

Verse ConceptsAbandoning FriendsNo SurvivorsKilling Whole Families

And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFireChild sacrificeMediumsProvoking GodSacrifice, In OtSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfPagan PracticesInfanticideHuman SacrificesFortunetellingNecromancyOccultismTime PassingSorcerypsychics

Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHousehold GodsMediumsSpiritismFortunetellingSpiritism AvoidedAbandoning IdolsThe Law Given To IsraelOccultismwitchespsychics

Bible Theasaurus

Acquainted (74 instances)
Associate (28 instances)
Common (161 instances)
Companion (55 instances)
Comrade (14 instances)
Conversant (3 instances)
Demon (37 instances)
Familiar (46 instances)
Fellow (213 instances)
Habitual (11 instances)
Ingratiating (1 instance)
Intimate (23 instances)

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אוב 
'owb 
Usage: 17

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