עָנַן ʻânan

Meaning

figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic

In the King James Version: [idiom] bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe(-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.

Derivation: a primitive root; to cover; used only as a denominative from H6051 (עָנָן), to cloud over;

Where it is used

• Genesis 9:14 Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
• Leviticus 19:26 You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
• Deuteronomy 18:10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
• Deuteronomy 18:14 Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
• Judges 9:37 Then Gaal spoke up again, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by way of the Diviners’ Oak.”
• 2 Kings 21:6 He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
• 2 Chronicles 33:6 He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
• Isaiah 2:6 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
• Isaiah 57:3 “But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
• Jeremiah 27:9 But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
• Micah 5:12 I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.