δαιμονίζομαι
to be demon-possessed
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Passive deponent
- Passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 9 distinct
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 3 times (23%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (15%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (15%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (8%)
+1 more form (1 occurrence)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1139 appears — 13 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 7 verses
- Matthew 4:24 δαιμονιζομένους pres mid/pass.dep ptcp acc pl masc The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
- Matthew 8:16 δαιμονιζομένους pres mid/pass.dep ptcp acc pl masc When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
- Matthew 8:28 δαιμονιζόμενοι pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom pl masc When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass by that way.
- Matthew 8:33 δαιμονιζομένων pres mid/pass.dep ptcp gen pl masc Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.
- Matthew 9:32 δαιμονιζόμενον pres mid/pass.dep ptcp acc sg masc As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him.
- Matthew 12:22 δαιμονιζόμενος pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.
- Matthew 15:22 δαιμονίζεται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely demonized!"
Mark 4 verses
- Mark 1:32 δαιμονιζομένους pres mid/pass.dep ptcp acc pl masc At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.
- Mark 5:15 δαιμονιζόμενον pres mid/pass.dep ptcp acc sg masc They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.
- Mark 5:16 δαιμονιζομένῳ pres mid/pass.dep ptcp dat sg masc Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.
- Mark 5:18 δαιμονισθεὶς aor pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.
Luke 1 verse
John 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
δαιμονιζομαι — transliterated daimonízomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to be demon-possessed.” Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (54% of all occurrences). With 13 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 4:24. From the same root come δαιμων and δαιμονιον. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1139 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Gospels 13 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 8%
- Johannine 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Were possessed with devils 3×, Was possessed with the devil 2×
- American Standard Version: Possessed with demons 3×, One possessed with a demon 2×, Was possessed with demons 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Demon-possessed 5×, Demon-possessed man 3×, Possessed by a demon 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Being possessed by demons 3×, Being demon possessed 2×, Demon possessed 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1139 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1139 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1139 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1139 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to be under the power of a demon.
Word origin
Derived from δαιμων (daímōn) (G1142) — demon.
Middle voice from G1142 ; to be exercised by a daemon : - have a (be vexed with be possessed with) devil (-s).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G1139 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1139, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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