Quick Definition
νοσέω v. I am diseased
Strong's Definition
from 3554; to be sick, i.e. (by implication, of a diseased appetite) to hanker after (figuratively, to harp upon)
KJV Usage: dote
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | νόσημα · νόσος
25.10 · Attitudes and Emotions · Desire, Want, Wish
to desire in an unhealthy manner, to have a morbid desire to have an unhealthy or morbid desire for something In some languages the closest equivalent of ‘an unhealthy desire’ would be ‘to desire something that one should not desire.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
νοσέω, -ῶ ; (νόσος) ; fr. [Aeschyl.], Hdt. down; to be sick; metaph. of any ailment of the mind (ἀνηκέστῳ πονηρίᾳ νοσεῖν ᾿Αθηναίους, Xen. mem. 3, 5, 18 and many other exx. in Grk. auth.): περί τι, to be taken with such an interest in a thing as amounts to a disease, to have a morbid fondness for, 1 Tim. vi. 4 (περὶ δόξαν, Plat. mor. p. 546 d.).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
νοσέω noseō 1x
to be sick; met. to have a diseased appetite or craving for a thing, have an excessive and vicious fondness for a thing, 1 Tim. 6:4*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** νοσέω, -ῶ
(< νόσος), [in LXX (metaph.): Wi 17:8*;]
to be sick: metaph., of mental ailment, seq. περί, I Ti 6:4 (cf. Plat., Mor., 546 d).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
νοσεω πᾶσιν τοῖ]ς καθ ἥϊντινα] δήποτε αἰτ[ίαν ἐκστᾶσι τῶν ἑαυτῶν] νομῶν προσα γγέλλε]σθαι ἐπα[νελ]θεῖν εἰς τὰ ἑαυϊ τῶν ἐϊφέστια (P Lond 9049}. (a.p. 104) (=III. p. 125, Selections, p. 73)). For the word in the LXX see Deissmann BS p. 145, and cf. Wackernagel Hellenistica, p. 10.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
νοσέω (noseō) — be sick. νοσ-έω (no Ionic dialect form νουσέω is found), to be sick, ail, whether in body or mind, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῆς πόλεως.. οὔπω νενοσηκυίας not yet having suffered from the plague, [Refs 5th c.BC+]diseased, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ νοσοῦν, ={νόσος}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist νοσῆσαι, fall sick, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of things, γῆ νοσεῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of plants, [Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, ἡμέραι αἱ νοσούμεναι days on which one is ill, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. of passion, ν. μάταν to be mad, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐξ ἀλαστόρων ν. [Refs]; νοσῶν alone, opposed to σώφρων,[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. περὶ δόξαν to have a morbid craving for fame, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
3. generally, suffer, νοσεῖ τὰ τῶν θεῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκεῖ νοσοῦμεν ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of states, suffer from faction and the like, ἡ Μίλητος νοσήσασα στάσι [Refs 5th c.BC+]