Word: daimonizomai

Pronounce: dahee-mon-id'-zom-ahee

Strongs Number: G1139

Orig: middle voice from 1142; to be exercised by a dæmon:--have a (be vexed with, be possessed with) devil(-s). G1142

Use: TDNT-2:19,137 Verb

Heb Strong:

1) to be under the power of a demon.

In the NT, these are persons, afflicted with especially severe diseases, either bodily or mentally, (such as paralysis, blindness, deafness, loss of speech, epilepsy, melancholy, insanity, etc.) whose bodies in the opinion of the Jews demons had entered, and so held possession of them as not only to afflict them with ills, but also to dethrone the reason and take its place themselves; accordingly the possessed were wont to express the mind and consciousness of the demons dwelling in them; and their cure was thought to require the expulsion of the demon.