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  #1139 δαιμονίζομαι daimonizomai {dahee-mon-id'-zom-ahee}

 middle voice from G1142; TDNT - 2:19,137; v

—Greek Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) to be under the power of a demon.

 In the NT, these are persons, afflicted with especially severe
 diseases, either bodily or mentally, (such as paralysis, blindness,
 deafness, loss of speech, epilepsy, melancholy, insanity, etc.)
 whose bodies in the opinion of the Jews demons had entered, and so
 held possession of them as not only to afflict them with ills, but
 also to dethrone the reason and take its place themselves;
 accordingly the possessed were wont to express the mind and
 consciousness of the demons dwelling in them; and their cure was
 thought to require the expulsion of the demon.

—Thayer's (New Testament Greek-English Lexicon)

Middle voice from G1142; to be exercised by a daemon:—have a (be vexed with, be possessed with) devil (-s).

—Strong's (Greek Dictionary of the New Testament)

#1139.
δαιμονι´ζομαι
daimonizomai; from 1142; to be possessed by a demon:—
NASB - demon-possessed(11), demoniacs(2).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - possessed with devils 4, possessed with the devil 3,
      of the devils 2, vexed with a devil 1, possessed with a devil 1,
      have a devil 1; 13