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# necromancer

«necromancer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who tries to speak with the dead to learn…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who tries to speak with the dead to learn secrets or the future. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/necromancer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The Torah forbids this practice, along with other kinds of magic, as part of the ways of the nations that Israel was told to avoid. Interpretation: Tradition reads the ban as teaching trust in God alone, not in the dead or in spirits, to know what will come.

### examples

- or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer. (Torah DEU.18.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/necromancer/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.509/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «necromancer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/necromancer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.