Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Excessive joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight. 2. (n.) The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries. 3. (n.) Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. 4. (n.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. 5. (v. t.) To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.

Multi-Version Concordance Ecstasy (3 Occurrences) Acts 10:10 And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him: (DBY) Acts 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me: (DBY) Acts 22:17 And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy, (DBY)