Deuteronomy 28:34
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Read in context →If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
Read in context →4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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hâlal · haw-lal'
to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify
Strong's KJV usage: (make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(-ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 21:13Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:7
Open full H1984 profile →shâgaʻ · shaw-gah'
to rave through insanity
Strong's KJV usage: (be, play the) mad (man).
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:34Strong's last: Hosea 9:7
Open full H7696 profile →maínomai · mah'-ee-nom-ahee
through the idea of insensate craving); to rave as a "maniac"
Strong's KJV usage: :--be beside self (mad).
Strong's first: John 10:20Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 14:23
Open full G3105 profile →emmaínomai · em-mah'-ee-nom-ahee
to rave on, i.e. rage at
Strong's KJV usage: :--be mad against.
Strong's first: Acts 26:11Strong's last: Acts 26:11
Open full G1693 profile →manía · man-ee'-ah
craziness
Strong's KJV usage: :--(+ make) X mad.
Strong's first: Acts 26:24Strong's last: Acts 26:24
Open full G3130 profile →lâhahh · law-hah'
to be rabid (figuratively, insane); also (from the exhaustion of frenzy) to languish
Strong's KJV usage: faint, mad.
Strong's first: Proverbs 26:18Strong's last: Proverbs 26:18
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So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
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MAD, adjective
1. Disordered in intellect; distracted; furious.
We must bind our passions in chains, lest like mad folks, they break their locks and bolts.
2. Proceeding from disordered intellect or expressing it; as a mad demeanor.
3. Enraged; furious; as a mad bull.
And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them, even to strange cities. Acts 26:11.
4. Inflamed to excess with desire; excited with violent and unreasonable passion or appetite; infatuated; followed properly by after.
The world is running made after farce, the extremity of bad poetry.
'Mad upon their idols, ' would be better rendered, 'Mad after their idols.' Jeremiah 1:1.
5. Distracted with anxiety or trouble; extremely perplexed.
Thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes--
Deuteronomy 28:34.
6. Infatuated with folly.
The spiritual man is mad Hosea 9.
7. Inflamed with anger; very angry. [This is a common and perhaps the most general sense of the word in America. It is thus used by Arbuthnot, and is perfectly proper.]
8. Proceeding from folly or infatuation.
MAD wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.
MAD, verb transitive To make mad furious or angry.
MAD, verb intransitive To be mad furious or wild.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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