What does φαρμακεία (pharmakeía) mean in the Bible?
φαρμακεία (pharmakeía) is a Greek word meaning "sorcery".
Greek · G5331
φαρμακεία
Sorcery
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φαρμακεία G5331
Pronunciation pharmakeía
What does φαρμακεία (pharmakeía) mean in the Bible?
φαρμακεία (pharmakeía) is a Greek word meaning "sorcery".
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G5331?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include [and] sorcery (1), sorcery (1).
Where does φαρμακεία (pharmakeía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Galatians 5:20. Its strongest book concentrations include Galatians (1), Revelation (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It [and] sorcery 1× Galatians 5:20
sorcery 1× Revelation 18:23
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Galatians 5:20
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 2
Galatians 1 Revelation 1
Source forms
φαρμακεία 1x pharmakeia Galatians 5:20
φαρμακείᾳ 1x pharmakeia Revelation 18:23
Parsing patterns
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular 1x Revelation 18:23
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Galatians 5:20
Evidence Summary
Greek word. sorcery
Strong's G5331
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 3 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
sorcery
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Galatians 5:20 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
φαρμακεία, farmakeia
magic, sorcery, enchantment
Read verse Revelation 9:21 Noun Genitive Plural Feminine
φαρμακειῶν farmakeiwn
magic, sorcery, enchantment
Read verse Revelation 18:23 Noun Dative Singular Feminine
φαρμακείᾳ farmakeia
magic, sorcery, enchantment
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Dative (1) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Gal 5:20 1×
Dative · Singular · Feminine Rev 18:23 1×
Word Origins
φαρμακεία is built from this root:
φαρμακεύς G5332
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain