Vertaling Bijbel, Kanttekeningen SV, [], [8]Om der grote hoererijen wil [9]der zeer bevallige hoer, [10]der meesteres der toverijen, die [11]met haar hoererijen volken [12]verkocht heeft, en geslachten met haar toverijen. 8. Of, om de veelheid der hoererijen; versta hier zowel geestelijke hoererij, dat is, afgoderij, als vleselijke ontucht. 9. Alzo noemt hij de stad Nineve. Hebr. de hoer goed van gunst. 10. Of, der voorstandster, der patrones van de toverijen. 11. Of, door. 12. Dat is, tot slaven en lijfeigenen gemaakt heeft.
, [1897], Witchcraft
(1 Samuel 15:23; 2Kings 9:22; 2Chr 33:6; Micah 5:12; Nahum 3:4; Galatians 5:20). In the popular sense of the word no mention is made either of witches or of witchcraft in Scripture.
The "witch of En-dor" (1 Samuel 28) was a necromancer, i.e., one who feigned to hold converse with the dead. The damsel with "a spirit of divination" (Acts 16:16) was possessed by an evil spirit, or, as the words are literally rendered, "having a spirit, a pithon." The reference is to the heathen god Apollo, who was regarded as the god of prophecy.
, [], Volume 5: Article 7 (2004) Aron Pinker, The Hard "Sell" in Nah 3:4, The standard meaning of מכר is incongruous in the context of Nah 3:4. It is suggested that the problematic המכרת in Nah 3:4 is the consequence of a מ/נ scribal confusion mitigated by similarity between מכר and נכר, as well as the מ in preceding כשפים. הנכרת has the sense of “she that acquires,” in accord with Hos 3:2. Such an approach would also help with understanding of 1Sam 23:7. It is also possible to construe הנכרת in the sense of “she that alienates,” though this grammatical form of נכר is not attested in the Hebrew Bible