G3097 – magos – μάγος – sorcerer, wise man
- Strong’s ID:
- G3097
- Greek Word:
- μάγος
- Transliteration:
- magos
- Pronunciation:
- mag’-os
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 6
- Search:
- Find “magos” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
of foreign origin H7248; a Magian, i.e. Oriental scientist; by implication a magician:—sorcerer, wise man.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a magus
1a) 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.
1b) 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
1c) a false prophet and sorcerer
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.