Strong's Concordance
daimonizomai: to be possessed by a demon
Original Word: δαιμονίζομαιPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: daimonizomai
Phonetic Spelling: (dahee-mon-id'-zom-ahee)
Short Definition: I am demon-possessed
Definition: I am possessed, am under the power of an evil-spirit or demon.
HELPS Word-studies
1139 daimonízomai (from 1142 /daímōn) – properly, demonized, i.e. coming under the power of a demon (fallen angel).
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
