παραφρονία
paraphronía · G3913 · 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 Peter 2:16 but he received a rebuke for his own offense, for a mute donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the insanity of the prophet.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- προφήτηςprophet 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κωλύωto hinder, to forbid 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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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
- παραφρονία names the state of unsound reasoning itself, as Peter describes the donkey's rebuke of Balaam's own madness: “but he received a rebuke for his own offense, for a mute donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the insanity of the prophet.” (2 Peter 2:16)
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παραφρονιας, ἡ (παράφρων (see the preceding word)), madness, insanity: 2 Pet 2:16. The…
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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