Lexicon apalgeó: to cease to feel pain for Original Word: ἀπαλγέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: apalgeó Phonetic Spelling: (ap-alg-eh'-o) Short Definition: I am past feeling, cease to care, become callous Definition: (lit: I cease to feel [my] pain), am past feeling, cease to care (suggesting sometimes despair, sometimes recklessness), become callous, reckless. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apo and algeó (to feel pain, suffer) Definitionto cease to feel pain for NASB Translationbecome callous (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 524: ἀπαλγέωἀπαλγέω, ἀπάλγω: (perfect participle ἀπηλγηκως); to cease to feel pain or grief; a. to bear troubles, with greater equanimity, cease to feel pain at: Thucydides 2, 61 etc. b. to become callous, insensible to pain, apathetic: so those who have become insensible to truth and honor and shame are called ἀπηλγηκότες (A. V. past feeling) in Ephesians 4:19. (Polybius 1, 35, 5 ἀπηλγηκυιας ψυχάς dispirited and useless for war (cf. Polybius 16, 12, 7).)
Strong's to become callous, apathetic From apo and algeo (to smart); to grieve out, i.e. Become apathetic -- be past feeling. see GREEK apo |
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