familiar spirits. These are evil spirits personating dead human beings, and attaching themselves only to "mediums" and those who give up their will to them.. dread reality is provided against by these enactments. Compare Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 18:10-12; 1 Chronicles 10:13-14.Isaiah 8:19. The Hebrew 'ob, borrowed from an Akkadian word, ubi. a charm, used of one who was mistress of the spell, or spirit. Isaiah 29:4. See Acts 16:16, where it is defined as "a spirit of Python " (= Pythius Apollo), i.e. the devil.
Wizards. knowing ones: those having occult knowledge,