Word

ζημιόω

zēmióō · G2210 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

to suffer loss, to forfeit

To suffer the loss of something which one has previously possessed, with the implication that the loss involves considerable hardship or suffering

Examples
Matthew 16:26 “For what good will it do a person if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a person give in exchange for his soul?
1 Corinthians 3:15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet only so as through fire.
Mark 8:36 “For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

6 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 2
Not stated: I 1
Not stated: you (more than one) 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

ψυχήlife, soul 2
ἑαυτοῦhimself, herself, itself 1
πᾶςall, every, each 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 3 groups

διάthrough+ ὅςwho, which, that 1
ἐκfrom+ ἐγώI, we 1
ἐνin+ μηδείςno one 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὠφελέωto profit, to help 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 2 entries

To be punished, to suffer punishment38.7: In 2 Corinthians 7:9, Paul rejoices that the Corinthians “were made sorrowful to the point of repentance,” adding that they “might not suffer loss in anything through us,” using this verb for being subjected to a penalty.
To suffer loss, to forfeit57.69: In Matthew 16:26, Jesus asks, “what good will it do a person if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul?” using this verb for suffering the loss of something of great value.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ζημία zēmía · G2209 · loss · 4×ζημιόωzēmióō · G2210

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ζημιω: (ζημία), to affect with damage, do damage to: τινα ((Thucydides), Xenophon,…

ζημιω: (ζημία), to affect with damage, do damage to: τινα ((Thucydides), Xenophon, Plato); in the N. T. only in the passive, future ζημιωθήσομαι ((Xenophon, mem. 3, 9, 12, others; but as often) in secular authors (future middle) ζημιώσομαι in passive sense; cf. Krüger, § 39, 11 Anm.; Kühner, on Xenophon, mem. as above; (Liddell and Scott, under the word; Veitch, under the word)); 1 aorist ἐζημιώθην; absolutely, to sustain damage, to receive injury, suffer loss: 1 Cor 3:15; ἐν τίνι ἐκ τίνος, in a thing from one, 2 Cor 7:9; with the accusative of the thing: (one from whom another is taken away (as a penalty) by death, is said τήν ψυχήν τίνος ζημιουσθαι, Herodotus 7, 39), τήν ψυχήν αὐτοῦ, to forfeit his life, i. e. according to the context, eternal life, Mt 16:26; Mk 8:36, for which Luke, in Lk 9:25, ἑαυτόν i. e. himself, by being shut out from the everlasting kingdom of God. πάντα ἐζημιώθην, reflexive (yet see Meyer), I forfeited, gave up all things, I decided to suffer the loss of all these ((?)) things, Phm 3:8.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Punish1 occurrence Take, Obtain, Gain, Lose6 occurrences

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