Acts 13:8

Verse Acts 13:8. But Elymas, the sorcerer, (for so is his name by interpretation)] That is, Elymas is the interpretation of the word μαγος, or sorcerer; not of the word Bar-Jesus as some have imagined; and to support which they have been led into strange etymologies on the word βαριησους, Bar-Jesus. But how is Elymas, ελυμας, the interpretation of the word μαγος, magician or sorcerer? Ans. Both names are Asiatic; but neither Hebrew nor Greek. I have already observed, in Clarke's note on "Matthew 2:1", that [Persic] mogh in Persian means an idolater, a worshipper of fire, and sometimes what we term a magician. Elymas is from the Arabic [Arabic] ilm, knowledge, science, doctrine, art; from alama, he was wise, skilled, c. hence [Persic] aleem or alymon, a doctor or learned man, and, with the Greek termination, ελυμας, Elymas, the interpretation of [Persic] mogh, Greek μαγος, magos, a magician, a wise man, doctor, c.