νοσ-έω
1. (no Ion. form νουσέω is found), to be sick, ail, whether in body or mind, Hdt. 1.105, etc.; τῆς πόλεως.. οὔπω νενοσηκυίας not yet having suffered from the plague, Th. 2.31; νενοσηκὸς αἷμα diseased, Arist. HA 521a18; νόσῳ ν. A. Pr. 386: c. acc. cogn., νοῦσον νοσεῖν Hdt. 3.33, cf. E. Andr. 220; τελευταίαν νόσον ν. Antipho 1.30; τι τῶν ἀπορρήτων κακῶν E. Hipp. 293: c. acc. partis, νοσεῖν κῶλον S. Ph. 41; ν. ὀφθαλμούς Pl. Grg. 496a; νεφρούς Arist. PA 671b11, etc.; τὸ νοσοῦν, = cross νόσος, S. Ph. 675, Pl. Smp. 186b: freq. in aor. νοσῆσαι, fall sick, Hdt. 1.19, Th. 1.138, Arist. Rh. 1392a11, Luc. Macr. 22, etc.; of things, γῆ νοσεῖ X. Ath. 2.6; of plants, Thphr. CP 5.9.9: - Pass., ἡμέραι αἱ νοσούμεναι days on which one is ill, Hp. Septim. 7.
2. of passion, ν. μάταν to be mad, S. Aj. 635 (lyr.); θολερῷ χειμῶνι νοσήσας ib. 207 (anap.); ἐξ ἀλαστόρων ν. Id. Tr. 1235; νοσῶν alone, opp. σώφρων, ib. 435; ν. τὰς φρένας Cratin. 329; ν. περὶ δόξαν to have a morbid craving for fame, Plu. 2.546f; ψυχῆς νοσούσης ἐστὶ φάρμακον λόγος Men. Mon. 550.
3. generally, suffer, νοσεῖ τὰ τῶν θεῶν E. Tr. 27; τοῖσιν οἰκείοις κακοῖς S. OC 766; ἀπαιδίᾳ E. Ion 620; πονηρίᾳ X. Mem. 3.5.18; ἐκεῖ νοσοῦμεν ὅτι.. E. Hel. 581: c. acc. cogn., τόδ’ ἄλγος S. Ph. 1326; esp. of states, suffer from faction and the like, ἡ Μίλητος νοσήσασα στάσι Hdt. 5.28; νοσεῖ πόλις S. Ant. 1015, cf. Pl. Mx. 243e; νοσοῦσι καὶ τεταραγμένοις D. 2.14; νοσοῦντας ἐν αὑτοῖς Id. 9.50; ἀπόλωλε καὶ νενόσηκεν ἡ Ἑλλάς ib.39; αἱ δὲ πόλεις ἐνόσουν Id. 18.45; τὰ πράγματα νοσοῦντα Arist. Ath. 6.4; νοσῶν γάμος Ael. NA 8.20.
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, [1Ti 6:4] (περί δόξαν, Plato, mor., p. 546 d.).
** νοσέω , - ῶ
( < νόσος ),
[in LXX ( metaph .): Wis 17:8 * ;]
to be sick: metaph ., of mental ailment, seq . περί , [1Ti 6:4] ( cf. Plat ., Mor., 546 d). †