Definition
From Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (1906)
Strong's Definition
properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
Translated in KJV as
bottlefamiliar spirit.
Etymology
from the same as H1 (אָב) (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name);
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