Quick Definition
I am a lunatic
Strong's Definition
to be moon-struck, i.e. crazy
Derivation: middle voice or passive from a presumed derivative of G4582 (σελήνη);
KJV Usage: be a lunatic
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σεληνιάζομαι; (σελήνη); (literally, to be moon-struck (cf. lunatic); see Wetstein on Mat_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): Mat_4:24; Mat_17:15. (Manetho carm. 4, 81 and 217; (Lucian, others); ecclesiastical writings.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σεληνιάζομαι selēniazomai 2x
to be a lunatic, Mat_4:24 ; Mat_17:15
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† σεληνιάζω
( < σελήνη ),
act, in Manetho (Caren., 4, 81), in NT depon . -ομαι , to be moonstruck , i.e . epileptic (epilepsy being supposed to be influenced by the moon): Mat_4:24 ; Mat_17:15 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σεληνιάζομαι [page 571]
See s.v . σελήνη ad fin .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σεληνιάζομαι [Etym: from σελήνη] σεληνιάζομαι, Dep. "to be moonstruck", i. e. "epileptic", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σεληνιάζω
(σελήνη),
act, in Manetho (Caren., 4, 81), in NT depon. -ομαι,
to be moonstruck, i.e. epileptic (epilepsy being supposed to be influenced by the moon): Mat.4:24 17:15.†
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