Wise men
mentioned in Dan. 2:12 included three classes, (1) astrologers, (2) Chaldeans, and (3) soothsayers. The word in the original (hakamim) probably means “medicine men. In Chaldea medicine was only a branch of magic. The “wise men” of Matt. 2:7, who came from the East to Jerusalem, were magi from Persia or Arabia.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Wise Men
WISE MEN.See Magi.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Wise Men
WISE MEN.See Magi; and, for the Wise, Wisdom.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Wise-Men
wzmen: In addition to the uses of wise specified in the article WISDOM, the adjective is employed occasionally as the technical description of men who are adepts in magic, divination, etc. (e.g. in Gen 41:8; Exo 7:11; Est 1:13; Dan 2:27; Dan 5:15). Naturally, however, in the ancient world the boundary between genuine knowledge and astrology, etc., was exceedingly vague, and it was never denied that real knowledge could be gained along lines that we know to be futile. So the initiation of Moses into all the wisdom of the Egyptians (Act 7:22) or of Daniel into all the learning of the Chaldeans (Dan 1:4) met with no disapproval. These great men could be trusted to avoid the moral and religious pitfalls of such pursuits. For the ordinary Israelites, however the uncompromising prohibition of idolatry closed the door definitely to all studies of this kind. See ASTROLOGY; DIVINATION, etc. And for the Wise-men of Mt 2 see MAGI.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Wise Men
See MAGI.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Wise Men
Of Egypt
Gen 41:8; Gen 41:24; Exo 7:11
Solomon
1Ki 4:29-34
Of Babylon
Dan 4:18; Dan 5:8
Of the East
Mat 2:1-12 Wisdom
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Wise Men
Wise Men. See Magi.