{"def":{"short":"properly, a mumble, i.e., a water-skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)","long":["water skin bottle",["necromancer, one who evokes the dead","ghost, spirit of a dead one","practice of necromancy"],"necromancer","one that has a familiar spirit"]},"deriv":"from the same as H0001 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name)","pronun":{"ipa":"ʔob","ipa_mod":"ʔo̞wv","sbl":"ʾôb","dic":"obe","dic_mod":"ove"}}