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Strong's #4583 - σεληνιάζομαι
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- to be moon-struck or lunatic
- to be epileptic
- epilepsy being supposed to return and increase with the increase of the moon. This meaning is doubtful as the Greeks knew nothing of epilepsy.
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σελην-ιάζομαι,
Pass., to be moonstruck, i.e. epileptic, Ev.Matthew 4:24, Ev.Matthew 17:15, Vett.Val. 113.10 .
2. to be sublunar, i.e. subject to change and decay, -ομένης τῆς φύσεως Zos.Alch. p.107 B., cf. Cat.Cod.Astr. 8(3).146.
σεληνιάζομαι; (σελήνη); (literally, to be moon-struck (cf. lunatic); see Wetstein on Matthew 4:24; Suicer, Thesaurus ii. 945f; BB. DD., under the word
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*† 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): Matthew 4:24; Matthew 17:15.†
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