Words

οἰωνισμός G91101

Home gloss

omen-taking

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

— / — / omen

Note

The noun of οἰωνίζομαι "take omens" (30:27; 44:5, 15), in the dative for the Hebrew infinitive absolute: "by omen-taking he takes omens"

Rulings

2, 95

Declared to share English with

• G90939 — one root: omen-taking / take omens (153h)

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 44 (Septuagint)

• 44:5 Is it not this that my lord drinks with? Now he, by omen-taking, takes omens with it. You have completed evil things in what you have done.'"
• 44:15 Now Joseph said to them, "What is this thing that you have done? Do you not know that a human of a sort such as I, by omen-taking, will take omens?"