παραοἰστράω
drive mad, madden
Where this word appears
Every passage where παραοἰστράω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Ezekiel 2:6 παραοἰστράω And you, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face; (for they will madden and will rise up against you round about, and you dwell in the midst of scorpions): be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for it is a provoking house.
- Hosea 4:16 παραοἰστράω For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
- Hosea 4:16 παραοἰστράω For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
About this word
About this word
παραοἰστράω (paraoistráō), “drive mad, madden,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 3 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
