G4583 – seleniazomai – σεληνιάζομαι be a lunatic

Strong’s ID:
G4583
Greek Word:
σεληνιάζομαι
Transliteration:
seleniazomai
Pronunciation:
sel-ay-nee-ad’-zom-ahee
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage Count:
2
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Find “seleniazomai” in the Bible (New Testament)

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

middle voice or passive from a presumed derivative of G4582; to be moon-struck, i.e. crazy:—be a lunatic.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) to be moon-struck or lunatic
2) to be epileptic
2a) epilepsy being supposed to return and increase with the increase of the moon. This meaning is doubtful as the Greeks knew nothing of epilepsy.

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.