noun · feminine
zēmias
Strong’sG2209
damage, loss
stem zēmi-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
ζημία, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX for ענשׁ ni. and cognate forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2209 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddzay-mee'-ah
detriment
Fromprobably akin to the base of G1150 (through the idea of violence);
King Jamesdamage, 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
Doric dialect ζᾱμία Refs 4th c.BC+, etc., later σαμία Refs 2nd c.BC+, ἡ, loss, damage, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to κέρδος, Refs 5th c.BC+; ζημίαν or -ίας λαβεῖν to sustain loss, Refs 5th c.BC+[same place]; ζ. εἶναι νομίζειν consider as loss, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 ζ. ἐργάζεσθαι, of a slave, be guilty of a delict, Refs 4th c.BC+
II penalty in money, fine, ζημίην ἀποτίνειν Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκτίνειν Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 generally, penalty, ζ. ἐπιτιθέναι τινί Refs 5th c.BC+; with the penalty added, θάνατον ζ. ἐπιθέσθαι, προθεῖναι, τάξαι, to make death the penalty, Refs 5th c.BC+; but ἐφ᾽ οἷς.. θάνατος ἡ ζ. Refs 5th c.BC+ penalty for.., Refs 5th c.BC+
b simply, expense, Refs 2nd c.BC+
III of what is bought too dearly, a bad bargain, a dead loss, Refs 5th c.BC+: usually with adjective, φανερὰ ζᾱμία Refs 5th c.BC+; καθαρὰ ζ., λαμπρὰ ζ., Refs 2nd 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.
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 | zēmias | zēmiais |
| object accusative | zēmian3×ζημίαν | zēmiain |
| direct address vocative | zēmiar | zēmiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | zēmiau1×ζημίας | zēmiaiu |
| to, for dative | zēmia | zēmiai |
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
zēmia 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
zēmian“loss”objectaccusative singular3×
Acts 27:21… tē tan hubrian houtan kai tan zēmian.… would have averted this disaster and loss.
Philippians 3:7… kerdeim, houteim hēgomē dia ton Christon zēmian.… gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
Philippians 3:8alla menounge kai hēgomō panteim zēmian arō dia tem huperecharōntem tau gnōsiau …… that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of …
zēmiau“loss”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 27:10… theōramō hoti meta hubriau kai pollau zēmiau ouk monem teu fortieu kai teu …… be filled with disaster and great loss, not only to ship and cargo …