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Wheresoever it taketh him (hopou ean auton katalabēi). Seizes him down. Our word catalepsy is this same word. The word is used by Galen and Hippocrates for fits. The word is very common in the papyri in various senses as in the older Greek. Each of the verbs here in Mark is a graphic picture.
Dashes down (rēssei). Also rēgnumi, mi form. Convulses, rends, tears asunder. Old and common word.
Foameth (aphrizei). Here only in the N.T. Poetic and late word.
Grindeth (trizei). Another hapax legomenon in the N.T. Old word for making a shrill cry or squeak.
Pineth away (xērainetai). Old word for drying or withering as of grass in Jam 1:11.
And they were not able (kai ouk ischusan). They did not have the strength (ischus) to handle this case. See Mat 17:16; Luk 9:40 (kai ouk ēdunēthēsan, first aorist passive). It was a tragedy.