857. apheidia
Strong's Concordance
apheidia: unsparing treatment
Original Word: ἀφειδία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: apheidia
Phonetic Spelling: (af-i-dee'-ah)
Short Definition: severity
Definition: severity, severe treatment.
HELPS Word-studies

857 apheidía – (from 1 /A "not" and 5339 /pheídomai, "to spare") – properly, unsparing severity, referring to a "severe form of self-control" based on an ascetic, unsparing attitude" (L & N, 1, 88.90).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 857: ἀφειδίᾳ

ἀφειδίᾳ (ἀφειδεια Lachmann, see under the word εἰ, ), ἀφειδιας, (the disposition of a man who is ἀφειδής, unsparing), unsparing severity: with the genitive of the object, τοῦ σώματος, Colossians 2:23 (τῶν σωμάτων ἀφείδειν, Lysias 2, 25 (193, 5); Diodorus 13, 60; 79 etc. (see Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited); in Plato, defin., p. 412 d. ἀφειδίᾳ means liberality).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
neglect.

From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and pheidomai; unsparingness, i.e. Austerity (asceticism) -- neglecting.

see GREEK a

see GREEK pheidomai

Forms and Transliterations
αφειδια αφειδία ἀφειδίᾳ αφειδώς apheidia apheidíāi
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Strong's Greek 857
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ἀφειδίᾳ — 1 Occ.

Colossians 2:23 N-DFS
GRK: ταπεινοφροσύνῃ καὶ ἀφειδίᾳ σώματος οὐκ
NAS: and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body,
KJV: and neglecting of the body;
INT: humility and unsparing treatment of [the] body not

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