Lexical Summary apotomia: sharpness, steepness Original Word: ἀποτομίαTransliteration: apotomia Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ot-om-ee'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: sharpness, steepness Meaning: sharpness, steepness Strong's Concordance severity. From the base of apotomos; (figuratively) decisiveness, i.e. Rigor -- severity. see GREEK apotomos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 663: ἀποτομίαἀποτομία, ἀποτομιας, ἡ (the nature of that which is ἀπότομος, cut off, abrupt, precipitous like a cliff, rough; from ἀποτέμνω), properly, sharpness (differing from ἀποτομή a cutting off, a segment); severity, roughness, rigor: Romans 11:22 (where opposed to χρηστότης, as in Plutarch, de book educ. c. 18 to πραότης, in Dionysius Halicarnassus 8, 61 to τό ἐπιεικές, and in Diodorus, p. 591 (except 83 (fragment 50:32, 27, 3 Dindorf)) to ἡμερότης). |