ἔκστασις
ékstasis · G1611 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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amazement, astonishment
A state of intense amazement, to the point of being beside oneself with astonishment
ExamplesMark 16:8 And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had gripped them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Luke 5:26 And they were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God. They were also filled with fear, saying, “We have seen remarkable things today!”
Acts 3:10 and they recognized him as being the very one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg for charitable gifts, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
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ecstatic vision
A vision accompanied by an ecstatic psychological state
ExamplesActs 10:10 But he became hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;
Acts 11:5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came to where I was,
Acts 22:17 “It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance,
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μέγαςgreat, large 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1
- ἔχωto have 1
- λαμβάνωto receive, to take 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 3
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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In the other Testament 4 words
- פַּחַד pachad · H6343 · trembling, terror, awe
- ἔκστασις (ékstasis, G1611) emphasizes psychological displacement or bewilderment (ekstasis, 'standing outside oneself'), while פַּחַד (pachad, H6343) centers on the emotional response of dread or terror; the Greek term is used in LXX contexts to render Hebrew expressions of overwhelming fear that displaces normal mental function.
- חֲרָדָה chărâdâh · H2731 · trembling, shock, terror
- חֲרָדָה (chărâdâh, H2731) emphasizes the physical manifestation of fear or trembling, while ἔκστασις (ékstasis, G1611) denotes mental displacement or bewilderment; both can describe states of overwhelming emotion, but the Hebrew term centers on trembling/quaking response whereas the Greek term centers on altered mental state.
- תִּמָּהוֹן timmâhôwn · H8541 · panic, confusion
- Hebrew תִּמָּהוֹן (timahon) and Greek ἔκστασις (ekstasis) both denote a mental state of astonishment or bewilderment that displaces normal cognition, sharing the core semantic field of overwhelming wonder or shock that removes one from ordinary mental functioning.
- מְהוּמָה mᵉhûwmâh · H4103 · consternation
- Greek ἔκστασις emphasizes mental displacement or bewilderment (whether divine ecstasy or fearful astonishment), while Hebrew מְהוּמָה denotes external chaos, tumult, or destruction that may produce such mental states; the overlap occurs where catastrophic events cause both objective confusion (tumult) and subjective disorientation (ecstasy/bewilderment).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Amazement, astonishment25.217
- Used in Mark 5:42, where those present were completely astounded when the twelve-year-old girl got up and walked, and in Luke 5:26, where amazement gripped everyone after the paralyzed man was healed.
- Ecstatic vision33.489
- Used in Acts 10:10, of Peter falling into a trance while a meal was being prepared, during which he saw the vision of the sheet let down from heaven with all kinds of animals.
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐκστάσεως, ἡ (ἐξίστημι); 1. universally, in Greek writing, any casting down of a thing…
1. universally, in Greek writing, any casting down of a thing from its proper place or state; displacement (Aristotle, Plutarch).
2. a throwing of the mind out of its normal state, alienation of mind, whether such as makes a lunatic (διανοίας, Deut 28:28; τῶν λογισμῶν, Plutarch, Sol. 8), or that of the man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it were out of himself, so that in this rapt condition, although he is awake, his mind is so drawn off from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed on things divine that he sees nothing but the forms and images lying within, and thinks that he perceives with his bodily eyes and ears realities shown him by God (Philo,quisrerumdivin.heres § 53 (cf. 51; B. D. under the word, Trance; Delitzsch, Psychol. 5:5)): ἐπέπεσεν (Rec., others ἐγένετο) ἐπ' ἔκστασις, Acts 10:10; εἶδεν ἐν ἐκστάσει ὅραμα, Acts 11:5; γενέσθαι ἐν ἐκστάσει, Acts 22:17, cf. 2 Cor 12:2f.
3. In the O. T. and the New amazement (cf. Longinus, 1, 4; Stobaeus, flor. tit. 104, 7), the state of one who, either owing to the importance or the novelty of an event, is thrown into a state of blended fear and wonder: εἶχεν αὐτάς τρόμος καί ἔκστασις, Mk 16:8; ἐξέστησαν ἐκστάσει μεγάλη, Mk 5:42 (Ezek 26:16); ἔκστασις ἔλαβεν ἅπαντας, Lk 5:26; ἐπλήσθησαν θάμβους καί ἐκστάσεως, Acts 3:10; (for חֲרָדָה, trembling, Gen 27:33; 1 Sam 14:15, etc.; פַּחַד, fear, 2 Chr 14:14, etc.).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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