- Transliteration: Katanuxis

- Phonetic: kat-an'-oox-is

- Definition:

1. a pricking, piercing

2. severe sorrow, extreme grief

3. insensibility or torpor of mind, such as extreme grief easily produces

a. hence a "spirit of stupor", which renders their souls torpid so insensible that they are not affected at all by the offer made them of salvation through the Messiah

- Origin: from G2660" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2660

- TDNT entry: 13:26,4

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From G2660" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2660; a prickling (sensation as of the limbs asleep) that is (by implication [perhaps by some confusion with G3506" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3506 or even with G3571" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3571]) stupor (lethargy): - slumber.