Strong G1142δαίμων
demon
- Transliteration
- daimōn
- Pronunciation
- dah'ee-mown
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From δαίω daiō (to distribute fortunes); a demon or super natural spirit (of a bad nature): - devil.
Detailed definition
δαίμων, -ονος, ὁ, ἡ
[in LXX for גַּד, Isa.65:11 (א; δαιμονίῳ, AB) *;]
in cl. and NT = δαιμόνιον; a demon: Mat.8:31.†
(AS)
[in LXX for גַּד, Isa.65:11 (א; δαιμονίῳ, AB) *;]
in cl. and NT = δαιμόνιον; a demon: Mat.8:31.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1142 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- devil5
First verses
- Matthew 8:31So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
- Mark 5:12And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
- Luke 8:29(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
- Revelation 16:14For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
- Revelation 18:2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
δαίμων, ονος,
vocative δαίμων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1480 (Lyric poetry), δαῖμον 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.11)], ὁ, ἡ, god, goddess, of individual gods or goddesses, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.222, 3.420, etc.; δαίμονι ἶσος 5.438)]; ἐμίσγετο δαίμονι δαίμων, of Φιλίη and Νεῖκος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 59.1)]:—but more frequently of the Divine power (while θεός denotes a God in person), the Deity,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.27)]; πρὸς δαίμονα against the Divine power, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.98; σὺν δαίμονι by its grace, 11.792)]; κατὰ δαίμονα, almost, ={τύχῃ}, by chance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.111; τύχᾳ δαίμονος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.67)]; ἄμαχος δ., i. e. Destiny, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 15.23: in _plural_, ὅτι δαίμονες θέλωσιν,)] what the Gods ordain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 16.117; ταῦτα δ᾽ ἐν τῷ δ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1443; ἡ τύχη καὶ ὁ δ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.63, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.111; κατὰ δαίμονα καὶ συντυχίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 544.)]
2 the power controlling the destiny of individuals: hence, one's lot or forlune, δτυγερὸς δέ οἱ ἔχραε δ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.396, compare 10.64; δαίμονος αἶσα κακή 11.61)]; δαίμονα δώσω I will deal thee fate, i.e. kill thee, [Refs (I 1.8.166)]; frequently in Trag. of good or ill fortune, ὅταν ὁ δ. εὐροῇ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 601; δ. ἀσινής [prev. author] “Ag.” 1342 (Lyric poetry); κοινός [prev. author] “Th.” 812; γενναῖος πλὴν τοῦ δαίμονος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 76; δαίμονος σκληρότης 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.3.4; τὸν οἴακα στρέφει δ. ἑκάστῳ 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 4.6)]; personified as the good or evil genius of a family or person, δ. τῷπλεισθενιδῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1569, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1194 (Lyric poetry); ὁ ἑκάστου δ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 107d, compare “PMag.Lond.” 121.505, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 9.1; ὁ δ. ὁ τὴν ἡμετέραν μοῖραν λελογχώς 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.78; ἅπαντι δ. ἀνδρι συμπαρίσταται εὐθὺς γενομένῳ μυσταγωγὸς τοῦ βίου 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 16.2 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; δ. ἀλάστορες [prev. author] 8D.; ὁ μέγας [τοῦ Καίσαρος] δ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 69; ὁ σὸς δ. κακός [prev. passage]; ὁ βασιλέως δ. [prev. author] “Art.” 15; ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δ. 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 119; Ξενοκράτης φησὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ἑκάστου εἶναι δ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 112a37.)]
II δαίμονες, οἱ, souls of men of the golden age, acting as tutelary deities, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 122, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1348, 6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 15, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 115.5, etc.; θεῶν, δ., ἡρώων, τῶν ἐν Ἅιδου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 392a: less frequently in _sing._, δαίμονι δ᾽ οἷος ἔησθα τὸ ἐργάζεσθαι ἄμεινον 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 314)]; τὸν τὲ δ. Δαρεῖον ἀγκαλεῖσθε, of the deified Darius, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 620)]; νῦν δ᾽ ἐστὶ μάκαιρα δ., of Alcestis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1003 (Lyric poetry), compare “IG” 12(5).305.5 (from Paros))]: later, of departed souls, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Luct.” 24)]; δαίμοσιν εὐσεβέσιν, = Dis Manibus, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 14.1683)]; so θεοὶ δ., [Refs ([prev. work]938, +others: also,)]ghost, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.6.8.)]
II.2 generally, spiritual or semi-divine being inferior to the Gods, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.415a, +others, 4th c.AD: Sallustius Philosophus 12, 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 183, etc.)]; especially evil spirit, demon, [NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Matt.8.31, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 8.2.5; φαῦλοι δ. 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “Problemata - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 2.46)]; δαίμονος ἔσοδος εἰς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.4; πρᾶξις ἐκβάλλουσα δαίμονας “PMag.Par.” 1227.)]
II.3 ἀγαθὸς δ. the Good Genius to whom a toast was drunk after dinner, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 525, 4th c.BC: Nicostratus Comicus 20, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.655e, 5th c.BC: Philonides Comicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 15.675b, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.39.5, “IG” 12(3).436 (from Thera))], etc.; of Nero, ἀ. δ. τῆς οἰκουμένης [Refs (“OGI” 666.3)]; of the Nile, ἀ. δ. ποταμός[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work]672.7 (1st c.AD))]; of the tutelary genius of individuals (above 1), ἀ. δ. Ποσειδωνίου [Refs (“SIG” 1044.9 (Halic.): _plural_, δαίμονες ἀ.,)] = Latin Di Manes, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“SIG” 1246 (from Mylasa): Astrology texts, ἀγαθός, κακός δ., names of celestial κλῆροι, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “N.” 4, “O.” 1, etc. (Less correctly written Ἀγαθοδαίμων, which see).)]
B ={δαήμων}, knowing, δ. μάχης skilled in fight, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 3.4. (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 398b)], suggests this as the originally sense; while others would write δαήμονες in [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus)], and get rid of this sense altogether; compare however αἵμων. More probably the Root of δαίμων (deity) is δαίω to distribute destinies;;[Refs 7th c.BC+ (compare 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 48.))]
vocative δαίμων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1480 (Lyric poetry), δαῖμον 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.11)], ὁ, ἡ, god, goddess, of individual gods or goddesses, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.222, 3.420, etc.; δαίμονι ἶσος 5.438)]; ἐμίσγετο δαίμονι δαίμων, of Φιλίη and Νεῖκος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 59.1)]:—but more frequently of the Divine power (while θεός denotes a God in person), the Deity,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.27)]; πρὸς δαίμονα against the Divine power, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.98; σὺν δαίμονι by its grace, 11.792)]; κατὰ δαίμονα, almost, ={τύχῃ}, by chance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.111; τύχᾳ δαίμονος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.67)]; ἄμαχος δ., i. e. Destiny, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 15.23: in _plural_, ὅτι δαίμονες θέλωσιν,)] what the Gods ordain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 16.117; ταῦτα δ᾽ ἐν τῷ δ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1443; ἡ τύχη καὶ ὁ δ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.63, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.111; κατὰ δαίμονα καὶ συντυχίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 544.)]
2 the power controlling the destiny of individuals: hence, one's lot or forlune, δτυγερὸς δέ οἱ ἔχραε δ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.396, compare 10.64; δαίμονος αἶσα κακή 11.61)]; δαίμονα δώσω I will deal thee fate, i.e. kill thee, [Refs (I 1.8.166)]; frequently in Trag. of good or ill fortune, ὅταν ὁ δ. εὐροῇ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 601; δ. ἀσινής [prev. author] “Ag.” 1342 (Lyric poetry); κοινός [prev. author] “Th.” 812; γενναῖος πλὴν τοῦ δαίμονος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 76; δαίμονος σκληρότης 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.3.4; τὸν οἴακα στρέφει δ. ἑκάστῳ 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 4.6)]; personified as the good or evil genius of a family or person, δ. τῷπλεισθενιδῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1569, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1194 (Lyric poetry); ὁ ἑκάστου δ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 107d, compare “PMag.Lond.” 121.505, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 9.1; ὁ δ. ὁ τὴν ἡμετέραν μοῖραν λελογχώς 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.78; ἅπαντι δ. ἀνδρι συμπαρίσταται εὐθὺς γενομένῳ μυσταγωγὸς τοῦ βίου 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 16.2 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; δ. ἀλάστορες [prev. author] 8D.; ὁ μέγας [τοῦ Καίσαρος] δ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 69; ὁ σὸς δ. κακός [prev. passage]; ὁ βασιλέως δ. [prev. author] “Art.” 15; ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δ. 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 119; Ξενοκράτης φησὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ἑκάστου εἶναι δ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 112a37.)]
II δαίμονες, οἱ, souls of men of the golden age, acting as tutelary deities, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 122, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1348, 6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 15, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 115.5, etc.; θεῶν, δ., ἡρώων, τῶν ἐν Ἅιδου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 392a: less frequently in _sing._, δαίμονι δ᾽ οἷος ἔησθα τὸ ἐργάζεσθαι ἄμεινον 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 314)]; τὸν τὲ δ. Δαρεῖον ἀγκαλεῖσθε, of the deified Darius, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 620)]; νῦν δ᾽ ἐστὶ μάκαιρα δ., of Alcestis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1003 (Lyric poetry), compare “IG” 12(5).305.5 (from Paros))]: later, of departed souls, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Luct.” 24)]; δαίμοσιν εὐσεβέσιν, = Dis Manibus, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 14.1683)]; so θεοὶ δ., [Refs ([prev. work]938, +others: also,)]ghost, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.6.8.)]
II.2 generally, spiritual or semi-divine being inferior to the Gods, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.415a, +others, 4th c.AD: Sallustius Philosophus 12, 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 183, etc.)]; especially evil spirit, demon, [NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Matt.8.31, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 8.2.5; φαῦλοι δ. 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “Problemata - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 2.46)]; δαίμονος ἔσοδος εἰς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.4; πρᾶξις ἐκβάλλουσα δαίμονας “PMag.Par.” 1227.)]
II.3 ἀγαθὸς δ. the Good Genius to whom a toast was drunk after dinner, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 525, 4th c.BC: Nicostratus Comicus 20, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.655e, 5th c.BC: Philonides Comicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 15.675b, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.39.5, “IG” 12(3).436 (from Thera))], etc.; of Nero, ἀ. δ. τῆς οἰκουμένης [Refs (“OGI” 666.3)]; of the Nile, ἀ. δ. ποταμός[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work]672.7 (1st c.AD))]; of the tutelary genius of individuals (above 1), ἀ. δ. Ποσειδωνίου [Refs (“SIG” 1044.9 (Halic.): _plural_, δαίμονες ἀ.,)] = Latin Di Manes, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“SIG” 1246 (from Mylasa): Astrology texts, ἀγαθός, κακός δ., names of celestial κλῆροι, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “N.” 4, “O.” 1, etc. (Less correctly written Ἀγαθοδαίμων, which see).)]
B ={δαήμων}, knowing, δ. μάχης skilled in fight, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 3.4. (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 398b)], suggests this as the originally sense; while others would write δαήμονες in [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus)], and get rid of this sense altogether; compare however αἵμων. More probably the Root of δαίμων (deity) is δαίω to distribute destinies;;[Refs 7th c.BC+ (compare 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 48.))]