Original Word: παραφρονέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: paraphroneó
Pronunciation: pah-rah-fro-NEH-oh
Phonetic Spelling: (par-af-ron-eh'-o)
KJV: as a fool
NASB: insane
Word Origin: [from G3844 (παρά - than) and G5426 (φρονέω - mind)]

1. to misthink, i.e. be insane (silly)

to be insane

From para and phroneo; to misthink, i.e. Be insane (silly) -- as a fool.

see GREEK para

see GREEK phroneo

3912 paraphronéō (from 3844 /pará, "contrary-beside" and 5426 /phronéō, "inner perspective regulating outward behavior") – properly, "beside oneself," acting contrary to sound thinking; acting deranged or delirious (LS), like someone mad (insane), i.e. "out of their mind." 3912 /paraphronéō is only used in 2 Cor 11:23.

Word Origin
from para and phroneó
Definition
to be beside oneself, to be deranged
NASB Translation
insane (1).

STRONGS NT 3912: παραφρονέω

παραφρονέω, παραφρόνω; (παράφρων (from παρά (which see IV. 2) and φρήν, 'beside one's wits')); to be beside oneself, out of one's senses, void of understanding, insane: 2 Corinthians 11:23. (From Aeschylus and Herodotus down; once in the Sept., Zechariah 7:11.)

Forms and Transliterations

παραφρονήσει παραφρονούντα παραφρονων παραφρονών παραφρονῶν paraphronon paraphronôn paraphronōn paraphronō̂n

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