4583. seléniazomai
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seléniazomai: to be moonstruck, spec. be epileptic (supposedly influenced by the moon)
Original Word: σεληνιάζομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: seléniazomai
Phonetic Spelling: (sel-ay-nee-ad'-zom-ahee)
Short Definition: I am a lunatic
Definition: I am a lunatic, am moonstruck, epileptic.

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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
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.)



Strong's
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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