Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1143: δάκνωδάκνω; to bite; a. properly, with the teeth. b. metaphorically, to wound the soul, cut, lacerate, rend with reproaches: Galatians 5:15. So even in Homer, Iliad 5, 493 μῦθος δακε φρενας, Menander quoted in Athen. 12, 77, p. 552 e., and times without number in other authors. |