A GHOST, or the person who keeps one — the word will not settle into either, and this translation has had to render it both ways. Where the idiom is turning TO them (Leviticus 19:31, 20:6) it reads 'mediums'; where a person HAS one (Leviticus 20:27) it reads 'a ghost'. Deuteronomy 18:11 has somebody ASK one, which is the same grammar as 20:27. ⚠ The shelf has the identical difficulty and solves it differently every time: 'a consulter with familiar spirits' (KJV), 'who is a medium or spiritist' (NIV), 'a professional foreteller of events' (NWT 1984), and — reaching for Greek mythology — 'pythonic spirits' (Douay), the oracle at Delphi imported into Moab. ⭐ It is nearly always paired with yidde'oni — and that companion never appears without IT, while ov stands alone at 1 Samuel 28:7-8, Isaiah 29:4 and 1 Chronicles 10:13 — and the most famous scene it produces is 1 Samuel 28, where a king who had purged them from the land goes to one by night. → first discussed at Deut 18:11