Word Summary
zēmia: damage
Original Word: ζημίαTransliteration: zēmia
Phonetic Spelling: (dzay-mee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: damage
Meaning: damage
Strong's Concordance
damage, loss.
Probably akin to the base of damazo (through the idea of violence); detriment -- damage, loss.
see GREEK damazo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2209: ζημίαζημία,
ζημίας,
ἡ,
damage, loss (
Sophocles,
Herodotus down):
Acts 27:10, 21;
ἡγεῖσθαι ζημίαν (
Xenophon, mem. 2, 4, 3;
τινα, accusative of person, 2, 3, 2),
τί, to regard a thing as a loss:
Philippians 3:7 (opposed to
κέρδος), 8.