Strong's Concordance apóleia: destruction, loss Original Word: ἀπώλεια, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apóleia Phonetic Spelling: (ap-o'-li-a) Short Definition: destruction, ruin, loss Definition: destruction, ruin, loss, perishing; eternal ruin. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 684 apṓleia (from 622 /apóllymi, "cut off") – destruction, causing someone (something) to be completely severed – cut off (entirely) from what could or should have been. (Note the force of the prefix, apo.) See 622 (apollymi). 684 /apṓleia ("perdition") does not imply "annihilation" (see the meaning of the root-verb, 622 /apóllymi, "cut off") but instead "loss of well-being" rather than being (Vine's Expository Dictionary, 165; cf. Jn 11:50; Ac 5:37; 1 Cor 10:9-10; Jude 11). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 684: ἀπώλειαἀπώλεια, ἀπωλείας, ἡ (from ἀπόλλυμι, which see); 1. actively, a destroying, utter destruction: as, of vessels, Romans 9:22; τοῦ μύρου, waste, Mark 14:4 (in Matthew 26:8 without a genitive) (in Polybius 6, 59, 5 consumption, opposed to τήρησις); the putting of a man to death, Acts 25:16 Rec.; by metonymy, a destructive thing or opinion: in plural 2 Peter 2:2 Rec.; but the correct reading ἀσελγείαις was long ago adopted here. 2. passively, a perishing, ruin, destruction; a. in general: τό ἀργύριον σου σύν σοι εἴη εἰς ἀπώλειαν, let thy money perish with thee, Acts 8:20; βυρθίζειν τινα εἰς ὄλεθρον καί ἀπώλειαν, with the included idea of misery, 1 Timothy 6:9; αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας destructive opinions, 2 Peter 2:1; ἐπάγειν ἑαυτοῖς ἀπώλειαν, ibid. cf. 2 Peter 2:3. b. in particular, the destruction which consists in the loss of eternal life, eternal misery, perdition, the lot of those excluded from the kingdom of God: Revelation 17:8, 11, cf. Revelation 19:20; Philippians 3:19; 2 Peter 3:16; opposed to ἡ περιποίησις τῆς ψυχῆς, Hebrews 10:39; to ἡ ζωή, Matthew 7:13; to σωτηρία, Philippians 1:28. ὁ υἱός τῆς ἀπωλείας, a man doomed to eternal misery (a Hebraism, see υἱός, 2): 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (of Antichrist); John 17:12 (of Judas, the traitor); ἡμέρα κρίσεως καί ἀπωλείας τῶν ἀσεβῶν, 2 Peter 3:7. (In secular authors from Polybius as above (but see Aristotle, probl. 17, 3, 2, vol. ii., p. 916{a}, 26; 29, 14, 10 ibid. 952^b, 26; Nicom. eth. 4, 1 ibid. 1120{a}, 2, etc.); often in the Sept. and O. T. Apocrypha.) From a presumed derivative of apollumi; ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal) -- damnable(-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste. see GREEK apollumi Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 68418 Occurrences ἀπώλεια — 4 Occ. ἀπώλειαν — 9 Occ. ἀπωλείας — 5 Occ. Matthew 7:13 N-AFS GRK: εἰς τὴν ἀπώλειαν καὶ πολλοί NAS: that leads to destruction, and there KJV: that leadeth to destruction, and many INT: to destruction and many Matthew 26:8 N-NFS Mark 14:4 N-NFS John 17:12 N-GFS Acts 8:20 N-AFS Romans 9:22 N-AFS Philippians 1:28 N-GFS Philippians 3:19 N-NFS 2 Thessalonians 2:3 N-GFS 1 Timothy 6:9 N-AFS Hebrews 10:39 N-AFS 2 Peter 2:1 N-GFS 2 Peter 2:1 N-AFS 2 Peter 2:3 N-NFS 2 Peter 3:7 N-GFS 2 Peter 3:16 N-AFS Revelation 17:8 N-AFS Revelation 17:11 N-AFS |
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