Strong's Greek: 619. ἀπόλαυσις (apolausis) -- enjoyment

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Lexicon

apolausis: enjoyment

Original Word: ἀπόλαυσις, εως, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: apolausis
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ol'-ow-sis)
Short Definition: the faculty or experience of enjoyment
Definition: the faculty or experience of enjoyment.

HELPS word-Studies

619 apólausis (from 575 /apó, "away from" and lauō, "enjoy") – properly, enjoyment, especially a particular advantage or benefit (note the looking back conveyed by the prefix, apo).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from apolauó (to take of, enjoy)
Definition
enjoyment
NASB Translation
enjoy (1), enjoy the pleasures (1).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 619: ἀπόλαυσις

ἀπόλαυσις, ἀπολαυσεως, ἡ (from ἀπολαύω to enjoy), enjoyment (Latinfructus): 1 Timothy 6:17 (εἰς ἀπόλαυσιν to enjoy); Hebrews 11:25 (ἁμαρτίας ἀπόλαυσιν, pleasure born of sin). (In Greek writings from (Euripides and) Thucydides down.)

Strong's

enjoyment.

From a comparative of apo and lauo (to enjoy); full enjoyment -- enjoy(-ment).

see GREEK apo