Original Word: φαρμακεύς
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: pharmakeus
Pronunciation: far-mak-YOOS
Phonetic Spelling: (far-mak-yoos')
KJV: sorcerer
Word Origin: [from pharmakon "a drug (an enchanted potion), (by implication) a medicine or a remedy"]

1. a druggist or poisoner ("pharmacist")
2. (by extension) a sorcerer, a male witch

sorcerer.

From pharmakon (a drug, i.e. Spell-giving potion); a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, i.e. (by extension) a magician -- sorcerer.

Cognate: 5332 pharmakeús – a person using drug-based incantations or drugging religious enchantments; a pharmakeus-practitioner who "mixes up distorted religious potions" like a sorcerer-magician. They try to "work their magic" by performing pseudo "supernatural" stunts, weaving illusions about the Christian life to use "powerful" religious formulas ("incantations") that manipulate the Lord into granting more temporal gifts (especially "invincible health and wealth"). This has a "drugging" effect on the aspiring religious zealot, inducing them to think they have "special spiritual powers" (that do not operate in keeping with Scripture). See 5331 (pharmakeía).

Word Origin
variant reading for pharmakos, q.v.

STRONGS NT 5332: φαρμακεύς

φαρμακεύς, φαρμακεως, ὁ (φάρμακον), one who prepares or uses magical remedies; a sorcerer: Revelation 21:8 Rec. (Sophicles, Plato, Josephus, Lucian, Plutarch, others.)

Forms and Transliterations

εφαρμακεύετο φάρμακα φάρμακά φαρμακευομένη φαρμάκοις φαρμάκων

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