1) a pricking, piercing
2) severe sorrow, extreme grief
3) insensibility or torpor of mind, such as extreme grief easily produces
3a) hence a "spirit of stupor", which renders their souls torpid so insensible that they are not affected at all by the offer made them of salvation through the Messiah
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Citing in TDNT: 3:626, 419
G2659
From G2660; a prickling (sensation, as of the limbs asleep), that is, (by implication [perhaps by some confusion with G3506 or even with G3571]) stupor (lethargy): - slumber.
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