Deuteronomy 28:34
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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Mad
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1 Corinthians 14:23
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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4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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הָלַל
hâlal · haw-lal'
8 times translated as this KJV form165 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 21:13Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:7
Open full H1984 profile →שָׁגַע
shâgaʻ · shaw-gah'
5 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
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 →μαίνομαι
maínomai · mah'-ee-nom-ahee
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
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 →ἐμμαίνομαι
emmaínomai · em-mah'-ee-nom-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to rave on, i.e. rage at
Strong's KJV usage: :--be mad against.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 26:11Strong's last: Acts 26:11
Open full G1693 profile →μανία
manía · man-ee'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
craziness
Strong's KJV usage: :--(+ make) X mad.
Strong's first: Acts 26:24Strong's last: Acts 26:24
Open full G3130 profile →לָהַהּ
lâhahh · law-hah'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to be rabid (figuratively, insane); also (from the exhaustion of frenzy) to languish
Strong's KJV usage: faint, mad.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 26:18Strong's last: Proverbs 26:18
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H1984
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
H1984
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
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mad
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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