STRONGS G3552:
νοσέω,
νόσῳ; (
νόσος); from (
Aeschylus),
Herodotus down;
to be sick; metaphorically, of any ailment of the mind (
ἀνηκέστω πονηρία νόσειν Ἀθηναιους,
Xenophon, mem. 3, 5, 18 and many other examples in Greek authors):
περί τί, to be taken with such an interest in a thing as amounts to a disease, to have a morbid fondness for,
1 Timothy 6:4 (
περί δόξαν,
Plato, mor., p. 546 d.).
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