What does ἀποτομία (apotomía) mean in the Bible?
ἀποτομία (apotomía): Severity that cuts off or removes; divine harshness contrasted with kindness toward believers.
Greek · G663
ἀποτομία
Severity
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ἀποτομίαG663
Pronunciationapotomía
What does ἀποτομία (apotomía) mean in the Bible?
ἀποτομία (apotomía): Severity that cuts off or removes; divine harshness contrasted with kindness toward believers.
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How does the BSB render G663?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include severity (2).
Where does ἀποτομία (apotomía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 11:22. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (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 Itseverity2×Romans 11:22
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowRomans 11:22
Aligned rows2
Books represented1
Romans2
Source forms
ἀποτομία1xapotomiaRomans 11:22
ἀποτομίαν1xapotomianRomans 11:22
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular1xRomans 11:22
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular1xRomans 11:22
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Severity that cuts off or removes; divine harshness contrasted with kindness toward believers.
Strong'sG663
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms2 forms2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
severity
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Romans 11:22Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ἀποτομίανapotomian
harshness, severity
Read verseRomans 11:22Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ἀποτομίαν·apotomian
harshness, severity
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 patterns2Aligned forms2Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · FeminineRom 11:221×
Accusative · Singular · FeminineRom 11:221×
Word Origins
ἀποτομία is built from this root: