Category:Wise Men

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Wise Men - Mentioned in Daniel 2:12 included three classes, (1.) astrologers, (2.) Chaldeans, and (3.) soothsayers. The word in the original (hakamim) probably means "medicine men. In Chaldea medicine was only a branch of magic. The "wise men" of Matthew 2:7, who came from the East to Jerusalem, were magi from Persia or Arabia.