Lexical Summary
apheidia: Self-denial, lack of restraint, severity
Original Word: ἀφειδία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: apheidia
Pronunciation: ah-fay-DEE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (af-i-dee'-ah)
KJV: neglecting
NASB: severe treatment
Word Origin: [from a compound of G1 (α - Alpha) (as a negative particle) and G5339 (φείδομαι - spare)]
1. unsparingness, i.e. austerity (asceticism)
Strong's Exhaustive 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
HELPS Word-studies
857 apheidía – (from 1 /A "not" and 5339 /pheídomai, "to spare") – properly, unsparing severity, referring to a "severe form of self-control" based on an ascetic, unsparing attitude" (L & N, 1, 88.90).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
alpha (as a neg. prefix) and
pheidomaiDefinitionunsparing treatment
NASB Translationsevere treatment (1).
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).
