“The third word in the text is ‏מנחש‎ _menachesh_, which our English translation renders, an enchanter. And, with Mr. Webster’s leave, (who insulteth so over their supposed ignorance) I think they have translated it very learnedly and judiciously; for charming and enchanting, as Webster himself acknowledges, and the words intimate, being all one, the word, ‏מנחש‎ _menachesh_, here, may very well signify enchanters, or charmers; but such properly as kill serpents by their charming, from ‏נחש‎ _nachash_, which signifies a serpent, from whence comes ‏נחש‎ _nichesh_, to kill serpents, or make away with them. For a verb in _pihel_, sometimes (especially when it is formed from a noun) has a contrary signification. Thus from ‏שרש‎ _radix_ is ‏שרש‎ _radices evulsit_, from ‏דשן‎ _cinis_ ‏דשן‎ _removit cineres_, from ‏חטא‎ _peccavit_ ‏חטא‎ _expiavit à peccato_; and so lastly from ‏נחש‎ _serpens_, is made ‏נחש‎ _liberavit â serpentibus, nempe occidendo vel fugando per incantationem_. And therefore there seems to have been a great deal of skill and depth of judgment in our English translators that rendered ‏מנחש‎ _menachesh_, an enchanter, especially when that of augur or soothsayer, which the Septuagint call Ὀιωνιζόμενον (there being so many harmless kinds of it) might seem less suitable with this black list: for there is no such abomination in adventuring to tell, when the wild geese fly high in great companies, and cackle much, that hard weather is at hand, but to rid serpents by a charm is above the power of nature; and therefore an indication of one that has the assistance of some invisible spirit to help him in this exploit, as it happens in several others; and therefore this is another name of one that is really a witch.