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Strong's #684 - ἀπώλεια

Transliteration

apṓleia

Phonetics

ap-o'-li-a

Origin

from a presumed derivative of (G622)

Parts of Speech

feminine noun

TDNT

1:396,67

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

destroying, utter destruction
1. of vessels
a perishing, ruin, destruction
1. of money
2. the destruction which consists of eternal misery in hell

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 343 ‑ אֵיד (ade); 657 ‑ אֶפֶס (eh'‑fes); 1091 ‑ בַּלָּהָה (bal‑law‑haw'); 1478 ‑ גָּוַע (gaw‑vah'); 1917 ‑ הַדָּם (had‑dawm'); 2555 ‑ חָמָס (khaw‑mawce'); 2764 ‑ חֶרֶם (khay'‑rem, kheh'‑rem); 4001 ‑ מְבוּסָה (meb‑oo‑saw'); 4032 ‑ מָגוּר (maw‑gore', maw‑goor'); 4046 ‑ מַגֵּפָה (mag‑gay‑faw'); 4103 ‑ מְהוּמָה (meh‑hoo‑maw'); 4646 ‑ מַפָּח (map‑pawkh'); 5647 ‑ עָבַד (aw‑bad'); 7200 ‑ רָאָה (raw‑aw'); 7588 ‑ שָׁאוֹן (shaw‑one'); 7703 ‑ שָׁדַד (shaw‑dad'); 7722 ‑ שֹׁאָה (sho, sho‑aw', sho‑aw'); 7843 ‑ שָׁחַת (shaw‑khath'); 7998 ‑ שָׁלָל (shaw‑lawl'); 8045 ‑ שָׁמַד (shaw‑mad'); 8077 ‑ שִׁמָמָה (shem‑aw‑maw', shee‑mam‑aw');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (19)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 2

Romans 1

Philippians 2

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 6

Revelation 2

BSB (17)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 1

Romans 1

Philippians 2

2 Thessalonians 1

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 5

Revelation 2

CSB (17)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 1

Romans 1

Philippians 2

2 Thessalonians 1

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 4

Revelation 2

ESV (17)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 1

Romans 1

Philippians 2

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 6

Revelation 2

KJV (20)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 2

Romans 1

Philippians 2

2 Thessalonians 1

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 6

Revelation 2

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (18)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 1

Romans 1

Philippians 2

2 Thessalonians 1

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 5

Revelation 2

N95 (18)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 1

Romans 1

Philippians 2

2 Thessalonians 1

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 5

Revelation 2

NAS (18)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 1

Romans 1

Philippians 2

2 Thessalonians 1

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 5

Revelation 2

NLT (18)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 2

Acts 1

Romans 1

Philippians 2

2 Thessalonians 2

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 6

Revelation 3

WEB (18)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 2

Romans 1

Philippians 2

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 6

Revelation 2

YLT (18)

Matthew 2

Mark 1

John 1

Acts 1

Romans 1

Philippians 2

2 Thessalonians 1

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 1

2 Peter 5

Revelation 2

ASV (19)

destruction 6

destructive 1

is perdition 1

lascivious doings 1

nbsp 1

of perdition 2

perdition 4

perish 1

waste 2

BSB (17)

are destroyed 1

destruction 11

destructive 1

of destruction 2

waste 2

CSB (17)

destroyed 2

destruction 12

of destruction 1

waste 1

wasted 1

ESV (17)

destroyed 1

destruction 12

destructive 1

sensuality 1

waste 1

wasted 1

KJV (20)

* 1

damnable 1

damnation 1

destruction 5

die 1

perdition 8

waste 2

ways 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (18)

destruction 13

destructive 1

perdition 1

perish 1

waste 1

wasted 1

N95 (18)

destruction 13

destructive 1

perdition 1

perish 1

waste 1

wasted 1

NAS (18)

destruction 14

destructive 1

perish 1

waste 1

wasted 1

NLT (18)

destroyed 3

destruction 11

destructive 1

hell 1

waste 2

WEB (18)

been wasted 1

destruction 10

destructive 1

immoral ways 1

is destruction 1

of destruction 2

perish 1

waste 1

YLT (18)

[is] destruction 1

besides destructive 1

destruction 13

of destruction 1

waste 2

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-ASF 10

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

ANT

N-ASF 10

N-DPF 1

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

BEZ

N-ASF 9

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

BGB

N-ASF 10

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

BMT

N-ASF 10

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

BYZ

N-ASF 10

N-DPF 1

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

ELZ

N-ASF 9

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

NA26

N-ASF 9

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

SBL

N-ASF 10

N-DPF 1

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

SCV

N-ASF 10

N-DPF 1

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

STV

N-ASF 9

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

TIS

N-ASF 10

N-DPF 1

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

N-ASF 9

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

TRG

N-ASF 9

N-GSF 5

N-NSF 4

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἀπώλεια, ἡ,

I destruction, Arist. EN 1120a2, etc.: pl., Id. Mete. 351b11.

1. loss, Id. Pr. 952b26; opp. τήρησις, Plb. 6.59.5 Schweigh., cf. BGU 1058.35, al. (i B. C.); τῶν χρόνων ἀ. Diog.Oen. 1.

2. perdition, Romans 9:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:3.

3. thing lost, LXX Leviticus 6:3 (5.22).

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἀπώλεια, 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.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ἀπώλεια , -ας , ἡ

(< ἀπόλλυμι ),

[in LXX (Cremer, 797) for H6, H343, etc.;]

destruction, waste, loss, perishing (in Papyri, of money, v. MM, s.v.): Matthew 26:8, Mark 14:4, Acts 8:20, Romans 9:22, 1 Timothy 6:9, 2 Peter 2:1; in special sense of the loss of eternal life, perdition, the antithesis of σωτηρία : Matthew 7:13, John 17:12, Philippians 1:28; Philippians 3:19, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Hebrews 10:39, 2 Peter 2:3; 2 Peter 3:7; 2 Peter 3:16, Revelation 17:8; Revelation 17:11 (DB, iii, 744).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

The weaker sense of ἀ. is illustrated by P Tebt II. 276.34 (an astrological fragment—ii/iii A.D.), where one who has acquired certain possessions ἐξωδιασμὸν αὐτῶν [ποιήσ ]ε ̣ται καὶ ἀπώλειαν, ";will spend and lose them"; (Edd.). Similarly in a series of nursing-contracts of the time of Augustus in BGU IV. we find the phrase ἐκτίνειν τὴν ἑκάστον ἀξίαν πλὴν συμφανοῦς ἀπωλείας, e.g. 1058.35 (= Chrest. II. 170), 1106.33, al. For the stronger meaning which we associate with NT usage, cf. the close of an ancient Coptic spell from the iii/A.D. Paris magical papyrus .1245 ff (= Selections, p. 114) ἔξελθε δαῖμον, ἐπεί σε δεσμεύω δεσμοῖς ἀδαμαντίνοις ἀλύτοις, καὶ παραδίδωμί σε εἰς τὸ μέλαν χάος ἐν ταῖς ἀπωλίαις, ";give you over to black chaos in utter destruction.";

List of Word Forms

απωλεια απωλεία απώλεια ἀπώλεια απωλείαις απωλειαν απώλειαν απώλειάν ἀπώλειαν απωλειας απωλείας ἀπωλείας απώρυγας απωσμών apoleia apōleia apṓleia apoleian apōleian apṓleian apoleias apoleías apōleias apōleías