Wise Men
      n : (New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and
          Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According
          to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought
          gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there
          were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were
          three of them [syn: Magi]


 Wise men
    mentioned in Dan. 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 Matt. 2:7, who came
    from the East to Jerusalem, were magi from Persia or Arabia.