Word

μαίνομαι

maínomai · G3105 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to not be in one’s right mind, to be insane, to be mad, to be out of one’s mind, insanity, madness

To think or reason in a completely irrational manner

Examples
John 10:20 Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?”
Acts 12:15 They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
Acts 26:24 While Paul was stating these things in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, “Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you insane.”

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 5 groups

ὁthe (definite article) 1
Not stated: I 1
Not stated: you (more than one) 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πρόςto, toward, with+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 3 groups

φημίto say 2
ἔπωto say 1
λέγωto say 1

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.

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.

Near synonyms 1 word

παραφρονέω paraphronéō · G3912 · to not be in one’s right mind, to be insane, to be mad: Both verbs denote insanity or madness, describing the state of mental derangement. They differ in nuance between raving madness and distorted thinking.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To not be in one’s right mind, to be insane, to be mad, to be out of one’s mind, insanity, madness30.24: This lexeme describes a state of mental derangement or being out of one's right mind. John 10:20 records the reaction of some who heard Jesus, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?”

Word family 4 words

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

μαίνομαιmaínomai · G3105ἐμμαίνομαι emmaínomai · G1693 · to be enraged, to be infuriated, to be insanely angry · 1×μανία manía · G3130 · to not be in one’s right mind, to be insane, to be mad · 1×μαντεύομαι manteúomai · G3132 · to tell fortunes · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from Homer down); to be mad, to rave: said of one who so speaks that he seems not to be…

(from Homer down); to be mad, to rave: said of one who so speaks that he seems not to be in his right mind, Acts 12:15; Acts 26:24; 1 Cor 14:23; opposed to σωφροσύνης ῤήματα ἀποφθέγγεσθαι, Acts 26:25; joined with δαιμόνιον ἔχειν, Jn 10:20. (Compare: ἐμμαίνομαι.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

To Think, Thought5 occurrences

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