The corpus record

ἐγγαστρί-μῡθος

eggastrimuthos

ventriloquist

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Where it lives

Regnorum I 5 · 2.7/10k
Leviticus 3 · 1.6/10k
Isaias 3 · 1.14/10k
Paralipomenon II 2 · 1.02/10k
Paralipomenon I 1 · 0.75/10k
Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k

What it meant — LSJ

ventriloquist, the familiar spirit

ventriloquist, mostly of women who delivered oracles by this means: hence, = ἐγγαστρίμαντις, Hp. Epid. 5.63, Philoch. 192, LXX Le. 19.31, Ph. 1.654, Plu. Def.orac. 2.414e, Luc. Lex. 20; also, the familiar spirit of such a person, LXX 1 Ki. 28.8.

In the wild

ἐγγαστρίμυθος · engastrimythos Septuaginta, Deuteronomium 18
ἐγγαστριμύθους · engastrimythous Septuaginta, Isaias 19
ἐγγαστριμύθων · engastrimythōn Septuaginta, Isaias 44
ἐγγαστριμύθους · engastrimythous Septuaginta, Isaias 8
ἐγγαστριμύθοις · engastrimythois Septuaginta, Leviticus 19
ἐγγαστριμύθοις · engastrimythois Septuaginta, Leviticus 20

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Where it came from

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