UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to foam up, to foam at the mouth

Semantic entry: 14.28

Semantic domains: Physical Events and States

Subdomains: Events Involving Liquids and Dry Masses

Definition: to cause or to produce the foaming up of a liquid (restricted in the NT to the foaming at the mouth of a person experiencing an epileptic seizure)

Notes: Since foaming at the mouth is so characteristic of epileptic seizures, there should be no difficulty in finding a rather specific term to identify this type of event.

MRK 9:18: RV MRK 9:18 · LV MRK 9:18 · Read together MRK 9:18

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OET-RV MRK 9:18

18 Whenever it takes hold of him, it attacks him and he starts foaming at the mouth and grating his teeth and his joints lock up. I tried to get your followers to command it to leave but they couldn’t.”

OET-LV MRK 9:18

18 And wherever it _may _grasp if him, it _is _attacking him, and he _is _foaming and is _grating his teeth and is _being _paralysed.
And I _told to _the apprentices/followers of _you that they _may _throw_ it _out, and they_ not _prevailed.

MRK 9:20: RV MRK 9:20 · LV MRK 9:20 · Read together MRK 9:20

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OET-RV MRK 9:20

20 So they brought the boy to him. When he saw Yeshua, the demon immediately caused him to have convulsions and fall on the ground—rolling over and foaming at the mouth.

OET-LV MRK 9:20

20 And they _brought him to him.
And having _seen him, the spirit immediately threw_ him _into _convulsions, and having _fallen on the ground, he _was _rolling foaming.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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Form 1

Sense 1: to foam up, to foam at the mouth