Lexical Summary
apotomia: Severity, sharpness, abruptness
Original Word: ἀποτομία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: apotomia
Pronunciation: ah-po-toh-MEE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ot-om-ee'-ah)
KJV: severity
NASB: severity
Word Origin: [from the base of G664 (ἀποτόμως - severely)]
1. (figuratively) decisiveness, i.e. rigor
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
severity.
From the base of apotomos; (figuratively) decisiveness, i.e. Rigor -- severity.
see GREEK apotomos
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
apo and the same as
apotomósDefinitionsharpness, steepness
NASB Translationseverity (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 663: ἀποτομίαἀποτομία,
ἀποτομιας,
ἡ (the nature of that which is
ἀπότομος, cut off, abrupt, precipitous like a cliff, rough; from
ἀποτέμνω), properly,
sharpness (differing from
ἀποτομή a cutting off, a segment);
severity, roughness, rigor:
Romans 11:22 (where opposed to
χρηστότης, as in
Plutarch, de book educ. c. 18 to
πραότης, in
Dionysius Halicarnassus 8, 61 to
τό ἐπιεικές, and in
Diodorus, p. 591 (except 83 (fragment 50:32, 27, 3 Dindorf)) to
ἡμερότης).
