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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ἀποτομία G663
Pronunciation apotomía
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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Questions this entry answers
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 It severity 2× Romans 11:22
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Romans 11:22
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 1
Romans 2
Source forms
ἀποτομία 1x apotomia Romans 11:22
ἀποτομίαν 1x apotomian Romans 11:22
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Romans 11:22
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Romans 11:22
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Severity that cuts off or removes; divine harshness contrasted with kindness toward believers.
Strong's G663
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
severity
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek 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 11:22 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ἀποτομίαν apotomian
harshness, severity
Read verse Romans 11:22 Noun 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 patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Rom 11:22 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Rom 11:22 1×
Word Origins
ἀποτομία is built from this root:
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