Quick Definition
ἔκστασις, εως, ἡ n.f. bewilderment, amazement
Strong's Definition
from 1839; a displacement of the mind, i.e. bewilderment, "ecstasy"
KJV Usage: + be amazed, amazement, astonishment, trance
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -εως | ἵστημι
25.217 · Attitudes and Emotions · Surprise, Astonish
amazement, astonishment a state of intense amazement, to the point of being beside oneself with astonishment In many languages it is simply impossible to speak of ‘being beside oneself with astonishment’ or ‘having astonishment seize someone.’ Though such expressions may seem quite appropriate in English, literal renderings of such statements may be almost totally meaningless in other languages. In MRK 5:42, for example, one may readily translate ‘they were extremely astonished’ or in LUK 5:26, ‘they were all very much astonished.’
In a number of languages, of course, astonishment is expressed in an idiomatic manner, for example, ‘they had to look three times’ or ‘they looked but they couldn’t believe.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἔκ-στασις, -ews, ἡ, (ἐξίστημι); 1. univ. in Grk. writ. any casting down of a thing from its proper place or state ; displacement, (Aristot., Plut.). 2. a throwing of the mind out of its normal state, alienation of mind, whether such as makes a lunatic (διανοίας, Deut. xxviii. 28; τῶν λογισμῶν, Plut. Sol. 8), or that of the man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it were out of himself, so that in this rapt condition, although he is awake, his mind is so drawn off from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed on things divine that he sees nothing but the forms and images lying within, and thinks that he perceives with his bodily eyes and ears realities shown him by God, (Philo, quis rerum divin. heres ὃ 53 [ef. 51; B. D. s.v. Trance; Delitzsch, Psychol. v. 57): ἐπέπεσεν [ Rec., al. ἐγένετο] ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν ἔκστασις, Acts x. 10; εἶδεν ἐν ἐκστάσει ὅραμα, Acts xi. 5; γενέσθαι ἐν ἐκστάσει, Acts xxii. 17, ef. 2 Co. xii. 2 sq. 3. In the O. T. and the New amazement [ef. Longin. 1,4; Stob. flor. tit. 104, 7], the state of one who, either owing to the importance or the novelty of an event, is thrown into a state of blended fear and wonder: εἶχεν αὐτὰς τρόμος καὶ ἔκστασις, Mk. xvi. 8; ἐξέστησαν ἐκστάσει μεγάλη, Mk. ν. 42 (Ezek. χχνὶ. 16); ἔκστασις ἔλαβεν ἅπαντας, Lk. v. 26; ἐπλήσθησαν θάμβους κ. ἐκστάσεως, Acts iii. 10; (for 777, trembling, Gen. xxvii. 33 ; 1 5. xiv. 15, etc.; 9, fear, 2 Chr. xiv. 14, etc.).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἔκστασις ekstasis 7x
pr. a displacement; hence, a displacement of the mind from its ordinary state and self-possession; amazement, astonishment, Mk. 5:42; excess of fear; fear, terror, Mk. 16:8; Lk. 5:26; Acts 3:10; in NT an ecstasy, a trance, Acts 10:10; 11:5; 22:17*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἔκ-στασις, -εως, ἡ
(ἐξίστημι) [in LXX: Ge 27:33, I Ki 14:15, Ez 26:16, al. (חֲרָדָה); II Ch 14:14 17:10 20:29 (פַּחַד), al. ;]
a displacement (Arist.).
An abnormal condition of the mind, in which the subject passes out of his usual self-control (Hippocr.); in NT (Kennedy, Sources, 121 f.);
a trance: Ac 10:10 11:5 22:17;
amazement: Mk 5:42 16:8, Lk 5:26, Ac 3:10.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἔκστασις is used = “" cessio bonorum” in CPR I. 2ο- 9 (Α.Ὁ. 250) τὰ ἀντιγραφέντα μοι. . . [ἐ]ξ ἀξιώσεώς μου plelt ἐκστάσεως πάντων τῶν ὑπαρχόντων pov: see the editor’s note p. 106 and cf. Chrest. 11. i. p. 287 f. For τέλος ἐκστάσεως i.e. an ἐγκύκλιον or tax on sales, see the editors’ introduction to P Tebt II. 350, and cf. BGU III. 914® (A D. 113). The curse of Deut 2878 is repeated in γώ $911 (ii/A.D.) τοῦτόν τε θεὸς πατάξαι ἀπορίᾳ... καὶ παραπληξίᾳ καὶ ἀορασίᾳ καὶ ἐκστάσει διανοίας. A good illustration of the NT usage is afforded by the new Menander fragment, A/enandrea p- 3547? βρυχηθμὸς ἔνδον, τιλμός, ἔκστασις συχνή, ‘in the house there followed a bellowing, a tearing of hair, and frequent outbursts of frenzy.” See also Hobart, p. 41.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἔκστασις (ekstasis) — amazement. ἔκστᾰσις, εως, ἡ, (ἐξίστημι) displacement, ἄρθρων [Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, change, εἰς ἀντικείμενα [Refs]degeneracy, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to στάσις, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; movement outwards, ἔ. ἀπὸ τοῦ παράγοντος [Refs 5th c.AD+] bis; ἔ. εἰς τὸ ἔξω[Refs 3rd c.AD+]; differentiation, ἔ. καὶ πιῆθος [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. standing aside, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. b = Latin cessio bonorum, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ἔ. χρημάτων [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; a tax on cessions, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II.2. distraction of mind, from terror, astonishment, anger, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. entrancement, astonishment, [NT]
II.4. trance, [NT]; ecstasy, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
II.4. b drunken excitement, [Refs 1st c.AD+]