Lexicon zémia: damage Original Word: ζημία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: zémia Phonetic Spelling: (dzay-mee'-ah) Short Definition: damage, loss Definition: damage, loss, detriment. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2209 zēmía – damage (detriment); a mercantile term for "loss"; a "bad deal" (unsuccessful business transaction) which results in a fine (penalty, forfeiture). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definitiondamage NASB Translationloss (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2209: ζημίαζημία, ζημίας, ἡ, damage, loss ( Sophocles, Herodotus down): Acts 27:10, 21; ἡγεῖσθαι ζημίαν ( Xenophon, mem. 2, 4, 3; τινα, accusative of person, 2, 3, 2), τί, to regard a thing as a loss: Philippians 3:7 (opposed to κέρδος), 8.
Strong's damage, loss. Probably akin to the base of damazo (through the idea of violence); detriment -- damage, loss. see GREEK damazo |
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