Strong's Concordance
Original word: Πύθων
Transliteration: puthón
Definition (short): divination
Definition (full): Python, a mythical serpent slain by Apollo, divination
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from Puthó (Pytho, an area of Greece)
Definition: Python, a mythical serpent slain by Apollo, divination
NASB Translation: divination (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
From Putho (the name of the region where Delphi, the seat of the famous oracle, was located); a Python, i.e. (by analogy, with the supposed diviner there) inspiration (soothsaying) -- divination.
References
KJV:
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
NASB:
It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.