ζημία
zēmía · G2209 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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loss
Suffering the loss of something which one has previously possessed, with the implication that the loss involves considerable hardship or suffering
ExamplesActs 27:10 saying to them, “Men, I perceive that the voyage will certainly be with damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”
Acts 27:21 When many had lost their appetites, Paul then stood among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice and not have set sail from Crete, and thereby spared yourselves this damage and loss.
Philippians 3:7 But whatever things were gain to me, these things I have counted as loss because of Christ.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πολύςmany 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κερδαίνωto gain, to win 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἡγέομαιto consider, to lead 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πᾶςall, every, each 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μετάwith, after 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To suffer loss, to forfeit57.69
- In Philippians 3:8, Paul writes, “I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,” using this word for something forfeited or given up.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ζημίας, ἡ, damage, loss (Sophocles, Herodotus down): Acts 27:10, Acts 27:21; ἡγεῖσθαι…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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