noun · feminine
apobolas
Strong’sG580
a casting away, rejection, loss
stem apobol-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* ἀπο-βολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ἀποβάλλω);
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G580 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-ob-ol-ay'
rejection; figuratively, loss
Fromfrom G577;
King Jamescasting away, loss.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
throwing away, e.g. ὅπλων [prev. work = 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges”] 943ef; jettison, Refs 1st c.AD+; in Grammars, dropping of a letter, etc., Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 loss, opposed to κτῆσις, χρημάτωνRefs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | apobolas2×ἀποβολὴ | apobolais |
| object accusative | apobolan | apobolain |
| direct address vocative | apobolar | apobolair |
| of, belonging to genitive | apobolau | apobolaiu |
| to, for dative | apobola | apobolai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
apobola is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
apobolas“loss”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 27:22kai teim nun parainamō vin euthumarō, apobolas gar psuchau oudenas eti ek vu …… because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the …
Romans 11:15ei gar tas apobolas autoiu katallagas kosmou, tinas tas proslēmpsias …For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world …