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Strong's #2659 - κατάνυξις
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- a pricking, piercing
- severe sorrow, extreme grief
- insensibility or torpor of mind, such as extreme grief easily produces
- hence a "spirit of stupor", which renders their souls torpid so insensible that they are not affected at all by the offer made them of salvation through the Messiah
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κατά-νυξις, εως, ἡ,
1. stupefaction, bewilderment, ἐπότισας ἡμᾶς οἶνον -νύξεως LXX Psalms 59:3(60).3, cf. Isaiah 29:10.
2. contrition, Just. Nov. 137.6 Intr.
κατάνυξις, κατανύξεως, ἡ (κατανύσσω, which see);
1. a pricking, piercing (Vulg. compunctio).
2. severe sorrow, extreme grief.
3. insensibility or torpor of mind, such as extreme grief easily produces; hence, πνεῦμα κατανύξεως, a spirit of stupor, which renders their souls torpid, i. e. so insensible that they are not affected at all by the offer made them of salvation through the Messiah, Romans 11:8 from Isaiah 29:10 the Sept. (where the Hebrew תַּרְדֵּמָה רוּחַ, a spirit of deep sleep, is somewhat loosely so rendered; οἶνος κατανύξεως for תַּרְעֵלָה יַיִן, wine which produces dizziness, reeling, German Taumelwein, Psalm 59:5
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† κατά -νυξις , -εως , ἡ
(< κατανύσσω , q.v.),
[in LXX: Psalms 60:3 (H8653), Isaiah 29:10 (H8639)*;]
1. a pricking.
2. (Perhaps through resembl. of κατανύσσω to -νυστάζω ), torpor of mind, stupefaction: Romans 11:8 (LXX) (v. ICC, in l; Field, Notes, 157).†
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This NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Romans 11:8) occurs in Pelagia-Legenden, p. 3.7 πάσης γὰρ ὠφελείας καὶ κατανύξεως πεπλήρωται τὸ διήγημα, where it seems to have the unusual meaning of ";incitement,"; ";stimulus.";
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