Bible Lexicons

ἀπώλεια, ἡ,

I destruction, Arist. EN 1120a2, etc.: pl., Id. Mete. 351b11.

II

1. loss, Id. Pr. 952b26; opp. τήρησις, Plb. 6.59.5 Schweigh., cf. BGU 1058.35, al. (i B. C.); τῶν χρόνων ἀ. Diog.Oen. 1.

2. perdition, Romans 9:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:3.

3. thing lost, LXX Leviticus 6:3 (5.22).

ἀπώλεια, ἀπωλείας, ἡ (from ἀπόλλυμι, which see);

1. actively, a destroying, utter destruction: as, of vessels, Romans 9:22; τοῦ μύρου, waste, Mark 14:4 (in Matthew 26:8 without a genitive) (in Polybius 6, 59, 5 consumption, opposed to τήρησις); the putting of a man to death, Acts 25:16 Rec.; by metonymy, a destructive thing or opinion: in plural 2 Peter 2:2 Rec.; but the correct reading ἀσελγείαις was long ago adopted here.

2. passively, a perishing, ruin, destruction;

a. in general: τό ἀργύριον σου σύν σοι εἴη εἰς ἀπώλειαν, let thy money perish with thee, Acts 8:20; βυρθίζειν τινα εἰς ὄλεθρον καί ἀπώλειαν, with the included idea of misery, 1 Timothy 6:9; αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας destructive opinions, 2 Peter 2:1; ἐπάγειν ἑαυτοῖς ἀπώλειαν, ibid. cf. 2 Peter 2:3.

b. in particular, the destruction which consists in the loss of eternal life, eternal misery, perdition, the lot of those excluded from the kingdom of God: Revelation 17:8, 11, cf. Revelation 19:20; Philippians 3:19; 2 Peter 3:16; opposed to ἡ περιποίησις τῆς ψυχῆς, Hebrews 10:39; to ἡ ζωή, Matthew 7:13; to σωτηρία, Philippians 1:28. ὁ υἱός τῆς ἀπωλείας, a man doomed to eternal misery (a Hebraism, see υἱός, 2): 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (of Antichrist); John 17:12 (of Judas, the traitor); ἡμέρα κρίσεως καί ἀπωλείας τῶν ἀσεβῶν, 2 Peter 3:7. (In secular authors from Polybius as above (but see Aristotle, probl. 17, 3, 2, vol. ii., p. 916{a}, 26; 29, 14, 10 ibid. 952^b, 26; Nicom. eth. 4, 1 ibid. 1120{a}, 2, etc.); often in the Sept. and O. T. Apocrypha.)

ἀπώλεια , -ας , ἡ

(< ἀπόλλυμι ),

[in LXX (Cremer, 797) for H6, H343, etc.;]

destruction, waste, loss, perishing (in Papyri, of money, v. MM, s.v.): Matthew 26:8, Mark 14:4, Acts 8:20, Romans 9:22, 1 Timothy 6:9, 2 Peter 2:1; in special sense of the loss of eternal life, perdition, the antithesis of σωτηρία : Matthew 7:13, John 17:12, Philippians 1:28; Philippians 3:19, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Hebrews 10:39, 2 Peter 2:3; 2 Peter 3:7; 2 Peter 3:16, Revelation 17:8; Revelation 17:11 (DB, iii, 744).†

The weaker sense of ἀ. is illustrated by P Tebt II. 276.34 (an astrological fragment—ii/iii A.D.), where one who has acquired certain possessions ἐξωδιασμὸν αὐτῶν [ποιήσ ]ε ̣ται καὶ ἀπώλειαν, ";will spend and lose them"; (Edd.). Similarly in a series of nursing-contracts of the time of Augustus in BGU IV. we find the phrase ἐκτίνειν τὴν ἑκάστον ἀξίαν πλὴν συμφανοῦς ἀπωλείας, e.g. 1058.35 (= Chrest. II. 170), 1106.33, al. For the stronger meaning which we associate with NT usage, cf. the close of an ancient Coptic spell from the iii/A.D. Paris magical papyrus .1245 ff (= Selections, p. 114) ἔξελθε δαῖμον, ἐπεί σε δεσμεύω δεσμοῖς ἀδαμαντίνοις ἀλύτοις, καὶ παραδίδωμί σε εἰς τὸ μέλαν χάος ἐν ταῖς ἀπωλίαις, ";give you over to black chaos in utter destruction.";

 

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