Word Summary
adēmoneō: to be distressed
Original Word: ἀδημονέωTransliteration: adēmoneō
Phonetic Spelling: (ad-ay-mon-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be distressed
Meaning: to be distressed
Strong's Concordance
to be distressed, troubled
From a derivative of adeo (to be sated to loathing); to be in distress (of mind) -- be full of heaviness, be very heavy.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 85: ἀδημονέωἀδημονέω,
(ῶ; (from the unused
ἀδημων, and this from the alpha privative and
δῆμος; accordingly, uncomfortable, as not at home, cf. German
unheimisch, unheimlich; cf. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Lexil. ii. 136 (Fishlake's trans, p. 29f. But Lob. (Pathol. Proleg., p. 238, cf., p. 160) and others connect it with
ἀδήμων,
ἀδῆσαι; see
Lightfoot on
Philippians 2:26));
to be troubled, distressed:
Matthew 26:37;
Mark 14:33;
Philippians 2:26. (
Xenophon, Hell. 4, 4, 3
ἀδημονῆσαι τάς ψυχάς, and often in secular authors.)