1. (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.

2. (n.) A diviner by spirits.

PYTHON

pi'-thon: Occurs only in Acts 16:16, where the Revised Version (British and American) reads, "a certain maid having a spirit of divination (margin "a spirit, a Python") met us." Puthon, or Putho, is the oldest name of Delphi (or the country about Delphi), in which was situated the famous Delphic Oracle. Consequently "Pythian spirit" came to be the generic title of the supposed source of inspiration of diviners, including the slave-girl of the account in Acts. Exactly what facts underlie the narrative it is rather hard to say, but it is evident that the girl was sincere in her conviction that she spoke with Pythian inspiration. Probably she represents some hysterical type, of none too strong mentality, whose confused utterances were taken as coming from some supernatural power. Impressed by Paul's personality, she followed him about, and, when his command came, was in a state of mind that had prepared her to obey it. The narrative, incidentally, gives an interesting sidelight on a society in which a girl with hysteria had a greater commercial value than she had after her cure.

See DIVINATION.

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4436. puthon -- Python, a mythical serpent slain by Apollo ...
... Python, a mythical serpent slain by Apollo, divination. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: puthon Phonetic Spelling: (poo'-thone) Short Definition ...
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On the Overthrow of Petrus and the Introduction of Lucius the ...
... tongue of the girl his instrument, the demon shouted out through her the words uttered
at Philippi by the woman possessed with the spirit of Python, [731] and ...
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Acts xvi. 13, 14
... Indeed a faithful woman!""A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of Python."
(v.16.) Say, what is this demon? The god, as they ...
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On Threefold Wisdom.
... Others have been under the influence of the demon called Python, ie, the
ventriloquial spirit, from the commencement of their existence. ...
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The Extension of the Church Throughout the World
... than he, in the casting out by St. Paul of the evil spirit of Python from
the soothsaying woman. This was an earnest of the final ...
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Salvation: Grace: Faith
... 'Every man his own Redeemer' will not work. You can no more extricate yourself from
the toils of sin than a man can release himself from the folds of a python. ...
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Letter cxxiv. To Avitus.
... are possessed with evil spirits and become diviners and soothsayers; [3384] indeed,
some are indwelt from their earliest years with the spirit of a python. ...
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The Holy War,
... Latin words primum mobile, carefully noting in the margin that he meant 'the soul';
and from hence he must have scraped acquaintance with Python, Cerberus, and ...
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Python (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus
Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. ...PYTHON. ...
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Qirhareseth

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Unfaithful (58 Occurrences)
... which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah which he kept
not, and also for having inquired of the spirit of Python, asking counsel of it ...
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Unfaithfulness (27 Occurrences)
... which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah which he kept
not, and also for having inquired of the spirit of Python, asking counsel of it ...
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Inquireth (7 Occurrences)
... Inquireth (7 Occurrences). Deuteronomy 18:11 or a charmer, or one that inquireth
of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consulteth the dead. (DBY). ...
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Female (95 Occurrences)
... Acts 16:16 And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a certain female
slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who brought much profit to her ...
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Familiar (35 Occurrences)
... thee"). Edward Bagby Pollard. SPIRIT, FAMILIAR. See FAMILIAR; DIVINATION;
PYTHON. Multi-Version Concordance Familiar (35 Occurrences). ...
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Employment (5 Occurrences)
... Acts 16:16 And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having
a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by ...
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Prophesying (58 Occurrences)
... Acts 16:16 And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a certain female
slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who brought much profit to her ...
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Pyrrhus (1 Occurrence)

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