Lexical Summary daimonizomai: to be possessed by a demon Original Word: δαιμονίζομαιTransliteration: daimonizomai Phonetic Spelling: (dahee-mon-id'-zom-ahee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be possessed by a demon Meaning: to be possessed by a demon Strong's Concordance to be demon possessedMiddle voice from daimon; to be exercised by a d?Mon -- have a (be vexed with, be possessed with) devil(-s). see GREEK daimon Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1139: δαιμονίζομαιδαιμονίζομαι; 1 aorist passive participle δαιμονισθείς; (δαίμων); to be under the power of a demon: ἄλλος κατ' ἄλλην δαιμονίζεται τυχην, Philemon 1 in Stobaeus, ecl. phys. 1, p. 196; of the insane, Plutarch, symp. 7, 5, 4, and in other later authors. In the N. T. δαιμονιζόμενοι are persons afflicted with especially severe diseases, either bodily or mental (such as paralysis, blindness, deafness, loss of speech, epilepsy, melancholy, insanity, etc.), whose bodies in the opinion of the Jews demons (see δαιμόνιον) had entered, and so held possession of them as not only to afflict them with ills, but also to dethrone the reason and take its place themselves; accordingly, the possessed were accustomed to express the mind and consciousness of the demons dwelling in them; and their cure was thought to require the expulsion of the demon — (but on this subject see B. D. American edition under the word |
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