What does ζημία (zēmía) mean in the Bible?
ζημία (zēmía): Loss or damage viewed as forfeiture; in Paul, spiritual loss contrasted with material gain.
Greek · G2209
ζημία
Detriment
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ζημία G2209
Pronunciation zēmía
What does ζημία (zēmía) mean in the Bible?
ζημία (zēmía): Loss or damage viewed as forfeiture; in Paul, spiritual loss contrasted with material gain.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2209?
The BSB source-word alignment has 4 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include loss (4).
Where does ζημία (zēmía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 27:10. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (2), Philippians (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It loss 4× Acts 27:10, Acts 27:21, Philippians 3:7, Philippians 3:8
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 27:10
Aligned rows 4
Books represented 2
Acts 2 Philippians 2
Source forms
ζημίαν 3x zēmian Acts 27:21, Philippians 3:7, Philippians 3:8
ζημίας 1x zēmias Acts 27:10
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 3x Acts 27:21, Philippians 3:7, Philippians 3:8
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 1x Acts 27:10
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Loss or damage viewed as forfeiture; in Paul, spiritual loss contrasted with material gain.
Strong's G2209
Lexical occurrences 4 verses Greek text appearances 4 times Word forms 2 forms 4 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Philippians 3:4–11 Source Gloss
detriment
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
4 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 27:10 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
ζημίας, zhmiav
damage, loss
Read verse Acts 27:21 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ζημίαν. zhmian
damage, loss
Read verse Philippians 3:7 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ζημίαν. zhmian
damage, loss
Read verse Philippians 3:8 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ζημίαν zhmian
damage, loss
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 4 Case pattern Accusative (3) Number pattern Singular (4)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Acts 27:10 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Acts 27:21 · Phil 3:7 · Phil 3:8 3×
Selected Scripture Witness
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New Testament Witnesses
loss
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Word Origins
ζημία is built from this root:
Why This Word Matters
Reframes religious achievements as spiritually worthless. Philippians 3:4–11
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain