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δαίμων

daímōn · G1142 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. demon, evil spirit

    An evil supernatural being or spirit

    Examples

    Matthew 8:31 And the demons begged Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

How it’s used In 1 role

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
πνεῦμα pneûma · G4151 · spirit
δαίμων denotes a supernatural spirit of specifically bad nature, while πνεῦμα serves as the broader, unmarked term for spirit in general (whether human, divine, or demonic), creating a genus-species relationship where δαίμων names one specific type within the semantic range πνεῦμα covers.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Demon, evil spirit12.37
Used of a malevolent spiritual being, as of the demons who beg Jesus to send them into the herd of pigs in Matthew 8:31.
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

δαίμωνdaímōn · G1142δαιμόνιον daimónion · G1140 · demon, evil spirit, god · 63×δαιμονίζομαι daimonízomai · G1139 · to be demon possessed · 13×δαιμονιώδης daimoniṓdēs · G1141 · demonic, devilish · 1×

Also from the root δαίμων

δεισιδαιμονέστερος deisidaimonésteros · G1174 · religious · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δαίμονος, ὁ, ἡ; 1. in Greek authors, a god, a goddess; an inferior deity, whether good or…
δαίμονος, ὁ, ἡ;
1. in Greek authors, a god, a goddess; an inferior deity, whether good or bad; hence, ἀγαθοδαιμονες and κακοδαιμονες are distinguished (cf. Winer's Grammar, 23 (22)).
2. In the N. T. an evil spirit (see δαιμόνιον, 2): Mt 8:31; Mk 5:12 (R L); Lk 8:29 (R G L marginal reading); Rev 16:14 (Rec.); (where L T Tr WH δαιμονίων). (B. D. (especially American edition) under the word ; cf. δαιμονίζομαι.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Supernatural Beings1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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