Greek verb · G3105
μαίνομαι
mainomaimah'-ee-nom-ahee
to rage, be furious.; to rave, be mad
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maínomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3105is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3105
through the idea of insensate craving); to rave as a "maniac"
The King James renders it: be beside self (mad).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mainomai is rendered "to rage, be furious.; to rave, be mad". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to rage, be furious.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 10:20Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”
John 10:20μαίνεται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to rage, be furious., and to rave, be mad.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to rage, be furious. | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 10:20Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?” |
| to rave, be madJhn.10:29 | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 10:29My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- μαίνῃ2
- μαίνεσθε1
- μαίνεται1
- μαίνομαί1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person singular2V-PNI-2S
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singular1V-PNI-1S
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PNI-2P
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PNI-3S
John
one use
Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”
- μαίνεταιmainetaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is insane
Acts
three uses
“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
- μαίνῃmaineverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: You rave
At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”
- μαίνῃmaineverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: You are insane
But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.
- μαίνομαίmainomaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I am insane
1 Corinthians
one use
So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
- μαίνεσθεmainestheverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you are mad
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.