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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - σεληνιάζομαι

σεληνιάζομαι

G4583

Transliteration: selēniázomai

Pronunciation: sel-ay-nee-ad'-zom-ahee

Definition: be a lunatic


- Original: σεληνιάζομαι

- Transliteration: Seleniazomai

- Phonetic: sel-ay-nee-ad'-zom-ahee

- Definition:

1. to be moon-struck or lunatic

2. to be epileptic

a. epilepsy being supposed to return and increase with the increase of the moon. This meaning is doubtful as the Greeks knew nothing of epilepsy.

- Origin: middle voice or passive from a presumed derivative of G4582" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4582

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: Middle or passive voice from a presumed derivative of G4582" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4582; to be moon struck that is crazy: - be lunatic.


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