A SOOTHSAYER — one of the eight practitioners Deuteronomy 18:10 forbids, and the one whose technique is genuinely lost. ⚠ The derivation is not recoverable: it has been connected to anan, a cloud, and to ayin, an eye, and neither is more than a guess, which is why the shelf supplies a method the Hebrew does not name — 'an observer of times' (KJV), 'a regarder of times' (Geneva), 'a practicer of magic' (NWT 1984), a fortune-teller (TLB). This translation keeps the flattest available English, a soothsayer, matching what it printed at Leviticus 19:26. ⭐ The company it keeps is consistent and damning: the participle turns up in the indictment of Manasseh (2 Kings 21:6), in Isaiah's charge that the land is ‘full of soothsayers like the Philistines’ (2:6) — a foreign import, which is exactly how Deuteronomy 18:9 frames it — in Jeremiah's five-word wall of refusal at Jeremiah 27:9, and in Micah's promise that it will be cut off. ⚠ It is NOT in Josiah's purge: 2 Kings 23:24 sweeps out ov and yidde'oni, not this word — an easy conflation, and one this entry made until a post-ship review caught it. ⚠ Judges 9:37 names an oak of the me'onenim — a diviners' tree, a place named after the trade. → first discussed at Deut 18:10