4583. seléniazomai
Lexicon
seléniazomai: To be moonstruck, to be lunatic, to be epileptic

Original Word: σεληνιάζομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: seléniazomai
Pronunciation: seh-lay-nee-AH-zoh-my
Phonetic Spelling: (sel-ay-nee-ad'-zom-ahee)
KJV: be a lunatic
NASB: epileptics, lunatic
Word Origin: [middle voice or passive from a presumed derivative of G4582 (σελήνη - moon)]

1. to be moon-struck, i.e. crazy

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
be a lunatic.

Middle voice or passive from a presumed derivative of selene; to be moon-struck, i.e. Crazy -- be a lunatic.

see GREEK selene

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4583 selēniázomai (from 4582 /selḗnē, "moon") – properly, moon-struck, acting like a lunatic – literally, "someone controlled by the moon" rather than reason.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from seléné
Definition
to be moonstruck, spec. be epileptic (supposedly influenced by the moon)
NASB Translation
epileptics (1), lunatic (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4583: σεληνιάζομαι

σεληνιάζομαι; (σελήνη); (literally, to be moon-struck (cf. lunatic); see Wetstein on Matthew 4:24; Suicer, Thesaurus ii. 945f; BB. DD., under the word ); to be epileptic (epilepsy being supposed to return and increase with the increase of the moon): Matthew 4:24; Matthew 17:15. (Manetho carm. 4, 81 and 217; (Lucian, others); ecclesiastical writings.)

Forms and Transliterations
σεληνιαζεται σεληνιάζεται σεληνιαζομενους σεληνιαζομένους σελίδας σελισία seleniazetai seleniázetai selēniazetai selēniázetai seleniazomenous seleniazoménous selēniazomenous selēniazoménous
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 4:24 V-PPM/P-AMP
GRK: δαιμονιζομένους καὶ σεληνιαζομένους καὶ παραλυτικούς
NAS: demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics;
KJV: and those which were lunatick, and
INT: possessed by demons and epileptics and paralytics

Matthew 17:15 V-PIM/P-3S
GRK: υἱόν ὅτι σεληνιάζεται καὶ κακῶς
NAS: on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very
KJV: son: for he is lunatick, and sore
INT: son for he is epileptic and miserably

Strong's Greek 4583
2 Occurrences


σεληνιάζεται — 1 Occ.
σεληνιαζομένους — 1 Occ.

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