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ἀπόχρησις

apóchrēsis · G671 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. being used up, being con sumed, consumption

    The activity of using up something

    Examples

    Colossians 2:22 (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of man?

How it’s used

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

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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In the other Testament 1 word
כָּלָה kâlâh · H3615 · to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end
Standard Hebrew verb for consumption/using up, particularly in contexts of destruction or complete use; the natural translation equivalent for ἀπόχρησις in contexts of being used up or consumed.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Being used up, being con sumed, consumption42.24
In Colossians 2:22, Paul dismisses man-made food regulations concerning “things destined to perish with use (apochrḗsei),” describing ordinary items consumed and used until they are gone.
Word family 17 words

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

χράομαι chráomai · G5530 · to treat, to behave toward, to deal with · 11×χρεία chreía · G5532 · need, lack, what is needed · 49×χρηστότης chrēstótēs · G5544 · that which is useful, what is benevolent, benevolence · 10×χρηστός chrēstós · G5543 · fine, better, good · 7×χρῄζω chrḗizō · G5535 · to need, to lack, to be without · 5×εὔχρηστος eúchrēstos · G2173 · useful, valuable · 3×ἀχρεῖος achreîos · G888 · useless, not useful, worthless · 2×καταχράομαι katachráomai · G2710 · to use, to employ, with · 2×χρῆσις chrēsis · G5540 · sexual function, sexual use · 2×ἀπόχρησιςapóchrēsis · G671ἀχρειόω achreióō · G889 · to go wrong, to become perverse · 1×ἄχρηστος áchrēstos · G890 · useless, not useful, worthless · 1×συγχράομαι synchráomai · G4798 · to associate, to be in the company of, to be involved with · 1×χρή chrḗ · G5534 · should, ought · 1×χρήσιμος chrḗsimos · G5539 · useful, use · 1×χρηστεύομαι chrēsteúomai · G5541 · to act kindly, to be kind, kindness · 1×χρηστολογία chrēstología · G5542 · attractive speech, fine language · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀποχρησεως, ἡ (ἀποχράομαι to use to the full, to abuse), abuse, misuse: Col 2:22 ἅ ἐστιν…
ἀποχρησεως, ἡ (ἀποχράομαι to use to the full, to abuse), abuse, misuse: Col 2:22 ἅ ἐστιν πάντα εἰς φθοράν τῇ ἀποχρήσει all which (i. e. things forbidden) tend to destruction (bring destruction) by abuse; Paul says this from the standpoint of the false teachers, who in any use of those things whatever saw an abuse, i. e. a blameworthy use. In opposition to those who treat the clause as parenthetical and understand ἀπόχρησις to mean consumption by use (a being used up, as in Plutarch, moral., p. 267f. (quaest. Rom. 18)), so that the words do not give the sentiment of the false teachers but Paul's judgment of it, very similar to that set forth in Mt 15:17; 1 Cor 6:13, cf. DeWette at the passage (But see Meyer, Ellicott, Lightfoot.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Do, Perform1 occurrence

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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