Lexicon apolausis: enjoyment Original Word: ἀπόλαυσις, εως, ἡPart 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 Originfrom apolauó (to take of, enjoy) Definitionenjoyment NASB Translationenjoy (1), enjoy the pleasures (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 619: ἀπόλαυσιςἀπόλαυσις, ἀπολαυσεως, ἡ (from ἀπολαύω to enjoy), enjoyment (Latin fructus): 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 |
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