Bible Dictionary: Being Possessed

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Greek

2192. echo -- to have, hold
... 1), acknowledge* (1), am (2), become (1), been (3), being (1), being under (1 ... 1),
obtain (2), obtained (1), owned (3), possess (2), possessed (4), possesses (1 ...
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Topical Bible Verses

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
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Matthew 12:22
Then was brought to him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, so that the blind and dumb both spoke and saw.
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Matthew 8:28
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
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Mark 1:32
And at even, when the sun did set, they brought to him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
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James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Strong's Hebrew

1961. hayah -- to fall out, come to pass, become, be
... belonged (4), belongs (2), brought (1), came (358), came into being (1), came ... occur
(7), occurred (3), occurs (3), own (3), placed (1), possessed* (1), present ...
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4672. matsa -- to attain to, find
... 2), meet (2), met (3), overtake (2), overtook (1), pleases* (1), possessed (1),
present ... be able, befall, being, catch, certainly, cause to come on, to, to hand ...
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Library

Possessing and Possessed
... Nor is the blessedness of being possessed by Him less than the blessedness
of possessing Him. For so long as we own ourselves we ...
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Christ was Possessed of a Body after his Resurrection.
... [992] And after his resurrection He did eat and drink with them, as being possessed
of flesh, although spiritually He was united to the Father. ...
/.../chapter iii christ was possessed of.htm

On the Saying of the Saviour, "All that came Before Me were ...
... Now the devil, being possessed of free-will, was able both to repent and to steal;
and it was he who was the author of the theft, not the Lord, who did not ...
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Do not Accept Judaism.
... but denies Christ to be the Son of God, he is a liar, even as also is his father
the devil, [928] and is a Jew falsely so called, being possessed of [929] mere ...
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There is but one Creator of the World, God the Father: this the ...
... And thus those who declare themselves "perfect," and as being possessed of the
knowledge of all things, are found to be worse than the heathen, and to ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter ix there is but one.htm

How Love Produces Zeal.
... of this love, ends ordinarily in envy: because these base and vile things are so
little, limited, particular, finite and imperfect, that being possessed by one ...
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Of the Second Species of Rapture.
... love is ecstatic, not permitting lovers to live to themselves, but to the thing
beloved: for which cause the admirable Apostle S. Paul, being possessed of this ...
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Absurdities of the Heretics as to their Own Origin: their Opinions ...
... [3093] As Massuet here remarks, we may infer from this passage that Irenæus believed
souls to be corporeal, as being possessed of a definite form,--an opinion ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xix absurdities of the heretics.htm

Fragment iii. Now, with the view of Explaining, by Means of an ...
... has been said concerning the Saviour, (I may say that) the power of thought [1735]
which I have by nature is proper and suitable to me, as being possessed of a ...
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Love and Discernment.
... Many people are clever, but not spiritual, while many people are often truly
spiritual without being possessed of much intellectual capacity. ...
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