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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #2659 - κατάνυξις

Transliteration

katányxis

Phonetics

kat-an'-oox-is

Origin

from (G2660)

Parts of Speech

Noun Feminine

TDNT

3:626,419

Definition

Thayer's

a pricking, piercing
severe sorrow, extreme grief
insensibility or torpor of mind, such as extreme grief easily produces
1. 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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Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 8639 ‑ תַּרְדֵּמָה (tar‑day‑maw'); 8653 ‑ תַּרְעֵלָה (tar‑ay‑law');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (1)

Romans

NAS (1)

Romans

HCS (1)

Romans

BSB (1)

Romans

ESV (1)

Romans

WEB (1)

Romans

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

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.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

† 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).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

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.";

List of Word Forms

κατανυξεως κατανύξεως katanuxeos katanuxeōs katanyxeos katanyxeōs katanýxeos katanýxeōs

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