Original Word: ἀπόλαυσις, εως, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: apolausis
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ol'-ow-sis)
Definition: enjoyment
Usage: the faculty or experience of enjoyment.

619 apólausis (from 575 /apó, "away from" and lauō, "enjoy") – properly, enjoyment, especially a particular advantage or benefit (note the looking back conveyed by the prefix, apo).

Word Origin
from apolauó (to take of, enjoy)
Definition
enjoyment
NASB Translation
enjoy (1), enjoy the pleasures (1).

STRONGS NT 619: ἀπόλαυσις

ἀπόλαυσις, ἀπολαυσεως, ἡ (from ἀπολαύω to enjoy), enjoyment (Latinfructus): 1 Timothy 6:17 (εἰς ἀπόλαυσιν to enjoy); Hebrews 11:25 (ἁμαρτίας ἀπόλαυσιν, pleasure born of sin). (In Greek writings from (Euripides and) Thucydides down.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

enjoyment.

From a comparative of apo and lauo (to enjoy); full enjoyment -- enjoy(-ment).

see GREEK apo

Forms and Transliterations

απελέγετο απολαυσιν απόλαυσιν ἀπόλαυσιν απολαύσωμεν apolausin apólausin

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