Pharmakeía — G5331

Definition

feminine noun

medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively)

1. the use or the administering of drugs
2. poisoning
3. sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it

Usually translated as

witchcraft, sorcery

Origin

from G5332

• pharmakeús (G5332)

Occurrences

Pharmakeía occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Galatians (1), Revelation (2)

• Galatians 5:20 — Idolatry, witchcraft (φαρμακεία), hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
• Revelation 9:21 — Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (φαρμακειων), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
• Revelation 18:23 — And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (φαρμακεία) were all nations deceived.