apotomias

Strong’sG663

harshness, severity

stem apotomi-2 times in the New Testament2 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.

**† ἀποτομία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἀποτέμνω, to cut of), [in Sm.: Je 51 (28):35, Na 3:1*;]

steepness, sharpness; metaph., severity (MM, s.v.): Ro 11:22.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G663 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidap-ot-om-ee'-ah

(figuratively) decisiveness, i.e. rigor

Fromfrom the base of G664;

King Jamesseverity.

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

ἀποτομ-ία, ἡ,
severity, νόμωνRefs 1st c.BC+; ἐπιτιμημάτωνRefs 4th c.BC+; of tortures, Refs 1st c.AD+
II cutting off, Refs 1st c.AD+
III sheer madness, Refs 3rd c.AD+

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.

severity2×

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	apotomias1×ἀποτομία	apotomiais
object accusative	apotomian1×ἀποτομίαν	apotomiain
direct address vocative	apotomiar	apotomiair
of, belonging to genitive	apotomiau	apotomiaiu
to, for dative	apotomia	apotomiai

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

apotomistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

apotomia 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

apotomias“severity”subjectnominative singular1×

Romans 11:22… apotomian theou; epi men toin piptarantoin apotomias, epi de sin chrēstotas theou, ean …… the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness …

apotomian“severity”objectaccusative singular1×

Romans 11:22ide oun chrēstotan kai apotomian theou; epi men toin piptarantoin apotomias, …… notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who …