STRONGS G1143:
δάκνω;
to bite;
a. properly, with the teeth.
b. metaphorically,
to wound the soul, cut, lacerate, rend with reproaches:
Galatians 5:15. So even in Homer, Iliad 5, 493
μῦθος δάκε φρένας, Menander quoted in
Athen. 12, 77, p. 552 e., and times without number in other authors.
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