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ἀφειδία

apheidía · G857 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. severe self-control, harsh control over

    Severe self-control, suggesting an ascetic and unsparing attitude

    Examples

    Colossians 2:23 These are matters which do have the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

How it’s used In 2 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

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Contrasting words 2 words
ἡδονή hēdonḗ · G2237 · that which is pleasurable, pleasure, desire
ἡδονή denotes pleasure or sensual enjoyment, standing as the lexical opposite to ἀφειδία's sense of severe self-denial and ascetic harshness—the pursuit of pleasure versus the denial of it
τρυφή tryphḗ · G5172 · to revel, to carouse, to live a life of luxury
τρυφή refers to luxurious living and self-indulgence, the direct opposite of the austerity and harsh self-control denoted by ἀφειδία
Semantic domains 1 entry
Severe self-control, harsh control over88.90
Used of ascetic bodily discipline, as of the severe treatment of the body Paul says has no real value against fleshly indulgence in Colossians 2:23.
Word family 3 words

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

φείδομαι pheídomai · G5339 · to spare, to prevent trouble happening to someone, to avoid · 10×φειδομένως pheidoménōs · G5340 · sparingly, in a limited manner · 2×ἀφειδίαapheidía · G857
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ἀφειδεια Lachmann, see under the word εἰ, ἰ), ἀφειδιας, ἡ (the disposition of a man who…
(ἀφειδεια Lachmann, see under the word εἰ, ἰ), ἀφειδιας, ἡ (the disposition of a man who is ἀφειδής, unsparing), unsparing severity: with the genitive of the object, τοῦ σώματος, Col 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).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Self-Control, Lack of Self-Control1 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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