Word study · Greek
pythōn
python, spirit of divination
Say it: POO-thone (approximate)
πύθων
What it means
Python was the name of the serpent at Delphi that, in Greek myth, Apollo killed; a "python spirit" came to mean a spirit of prophecy or ventriloquism. The slave girl in Philippi has "a spirit of divination" (literally "a python spirit," 16:16). It occurs only here in the New Testament.
Range of meaning
- PythonThe Delphic serpent.
- DivinationFortune-telling by a spirit.
In Acts
- Chapter 16
"A spirit of divination" (16:16).
Every verse (1)
Verses where G4436 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources