Strong's #2659: katanuxis (pronounced kat-an'-oox-is)

from 2660; a prickling (sensation, as of the limbs asleep), i.e. (by implication, (perhaps by some confusion with 3506 or even with 3571)) stupor (lethargy):--slumber.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katanuxis

1) a pricking, piercing

2) severe sorrow, extreme grief

3) insensibility or torpor of mind, such as extreme grief easily produces

3a) hence a "spirit of stupor" , which renders their souls torpid so insensible that they are not affected at all by the offer made them of salvation through the Messiah

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G2660

Citing in TDNT: 3:626, 419

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

Romans 11:8: "hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and"