Lexical Summary apheidia: unsparing treatment Original Word: ἀφειδίαTransliteration: apheidia Phonetic Spelling: (af-i-dee'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: unsparing treatment Meaning: unsparing treatment Strong's Concordance neglect. From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and pheidomai; unsparingness, i.e. Austerity (asceticism) -- neglecting. see GREEK a see GREEK pheidomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 857: ἀφειδίᾳἀφειδίᾳ (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, Colossians 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). |
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