παραφρονέω
paraphronéō · G3912 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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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
Examples2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they servants of Christ?—I am speaking as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 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.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- μαίνομαι maínomai · G3105 · to not be in one’s right mind, to be insane, to be mad
- Both verbs describe irrational or deranged behavior: παραφρονέω is used rhetorically of speaking as if out of one's mind, while μαίνομαι denotes raving madness more directly, often as a direct accusation of insanity. The two converge on the shared concept of mental derangement.
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
- παραφρονέω names a claimed departure from sound reasoning, as Paul ironically compares his own sufferings to those of his opponents: “Are they servants of Christ?—I am speaking as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.” (2 Corinthians 11:23)
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παραφρόνω; (παράφρων (from παρά (which see IV. 2) and φρήν, 'beside one's wits')); to be…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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